On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 02:03 AM 26-07-00 -0400, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Charles Stanley [mailto:charles@...]
> > > Sent: Miércoles 26 de Julio de 2000 1:52
> > >
> > > Well, that certainly changes things. As I understand it, Inprise wants
> > > Millions for the release of those.
> > > Shucks... Perhaps I need to start looking for another RDBMS.
> >
> >Since you already have IB6 in your hands, you can resist some months before
> >starting to look at another RDBMS.
> >
> >C.
>

Ahh what the heck the docs needed some work anyways, getting outdated (or
was I just getting tired of reading the same set with 4-5 and then 6). I
think a new set of docs would be refreshing...well ok not really but I can
use the beta docs to limp along until new ones are written. As far as the
test suites, they needed some work I imagine (after all we were still
finding bugs left and right) this shouldn't take too much time to replace,
and meanwhile the millions new developers out there will probably manually
find any bugs pretty quickly, the suite is really probably only necessary
when the developer group is small to stamp out ugly bugs before it
releases to beta. Now you are releasing a raw may not even work version
at the pre-alpha state even at times and we expect it to be buggy...in
fact its expected in open source ("hey this thing dont compile and crashes
frequently" or "this thing can't even do a single select" is common in
alpha release open source). Now when it gets to beta after about 10,000
bugs are reported in with the patches accompanying them, I can say with
fair certainty it will be in better shape than the auto-tested versions
approved by some test suite...yes the suite will be nice, but is it really
necessary at this time?

In effect I wish to know whats holding us back? Whats missing that can't
be replaced by a few thousand extra monkeys like me pressing the
unexpected buttons on the keyboard? Am I missing the point of the test
suite all together?

Randal

>
> ...by which time, Newco will have reconstructed the test suite and the
> documentation. We are not talking in terms of absolute impossibility
> anywhere here, we are talking about capitalising on the considerable assets
> in hand.
>
> It is encouraging to see several hands going up with indications of
> financial support. We are less than one day past the machine-gun raid but
> we are not in the state of siege that some would like to think.
>
> Helen
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