Hi, Marck. On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:07:10 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 5:07 PM -0700 GMT here, you wrote:
> You may see little evidence, but I'd suggest that's what you get for > not looking closely enough ;-) (joking - no offence intended). Understood 8-). And I'll admit that I haven't been following things as closely as I used to. > Seriously though, version 2 is currently being worked on very hard > indeed at RITlabs. That's why there is little movement right now. Yes, I understand that--really. > Although v2 has not been worked on before this summer, I would say > that 80% of the originally slated v2 features made it into the 1.6 > series. I call that evidence myself. Except that, as I understand it, the two versions will be so very different that getting the functionality into 1.6 doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be easy to implement it in v2. > The new v2 kernel has already been used for mail exchange within > RITlabs. We are told that V2 definitely contains a rendering engine > capable of showing every national character set there is. These are two things that I didn't know until today, and that are very encouraging to hear. > I'm not saying any more than that and I'm certainly not going to > talk timescales. All I have on that front is some guesses by the > four man team slaving away on this job and they really shouldn't be > held to them. I don't blame you--or them. > No, I've said too much! I don't know if it's "too much", but thank you! -- Keith ...I smell a rat. Did you bake it or fry it? ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 1.62b5 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html