[bf1942] Linux patch ETA

[Michael Ressen]

Unless the Linux codebase is a seperate branch....??   I guess that's 
never been made clear to us.


/BA


Steven Hartland wrote:

> I must say I agree, its looking quite possible that we will loose 
> clients over
> this issue so its likely that this will be having financial 
> repercussions for us
> as well as being a major headache.
>
> I would like to understand how this situation:
> 1. Was allowed to occur.
> 2. Wasn't very quickly resolved.
> 3. How its going to be prevented from reoccurring in the future.
>
> Having worked in the software industry for many years now with multi
> platform releases being are a day to day thing for me. I hence fail to
> see how the patch couldn't be released within hours of the mistake being
> noticed, it should have been a simple case of a recompile on the relevant
> platform given a common codebase.
>
>    Steve / K
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Thompson" <rick at fortweb.com>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 5:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Linux patch ETA
>
>
>> We have clients who have to forfeit matches today and they are only 
>> slightly less pissed off than a client with an extremely popular DC 
>> server which has been a ghost town since Friday.
>>
>> I am not angry with the nix developers who were left out of the loop 
>> on the patch but sincerely hope someone from EA knows they have a lot 
>> of unhappy users out here this morning. This debacle is the result of 
>> sheer incompetence and could have been easily prevented with a little 
>> communication. Somebody needs a demotion to mailroom where they can't 
>> screw anything up this bad ever again.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> At 09:10 AM 12/3/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Folks, the Canada office handled both of these new patches and
>>> unfortunately I wasn't in the loop.
>>>
>>> Andy is working on both Linux versions on the other side of the pond
>>> right now.
>>>
>>> // Andreas
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andrew vonNiederhausern [mailto:avonnied at genetics.utah.edu]
>>> Sent: den 2 december 2004 19:11
>>> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>>> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Linux patch ETA
>>>
>>> Would be good to know..
>>>
>>> Competetive League play officially uses 1.61 on Sunday.. would be nice
>>> to have the linux patch soon.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Steven Hartland [mailto:killing at multiplay.co.uk]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 3:56 AM
>>> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>>> Subject: [bf1942] Linux patch ETA
>>>
>>> Don't like doing this but any ETA on the linux patch as we are 
>>> getting a
>>> large amount of complaints about it?
>>>
>>>     Steve / K
>>
>>
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