Proper threading? (technical spects)

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:04:10 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:55:56 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
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>>The upcoming releases (I know no dates, so don't ask!) does, among other
>>things, bring the Win32 and OS/2 codebases into line (so I'm led to believe).
>>That will form the basis of future versions where more extensive changes can
>>be implemented without preventing those with shared installations from
>>keeping body and soul together.
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>    From my understanding that is the next major version which is supposed to
>be a complete rewrite from the ground up, seperating the code that actually
>does things from the display code and making the former as portable as
>possible.  This will let them mate that portable "work" code with different
>"display" code for easier porting to future platforms.
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OK, well I suppose that they need to get things in both versions into
line before they start modifying again. It makes sense to start from
the same place on both versions. I assume (but may be wrong) that the
release expected soon will be v2.1 on both platforms, but I suppose
some +0.0x fixes may appear if the rewrite takes a long time.


>    The next release of PMMail99 is just a maintenence release with minor
>feature upgrades for the existing code base.

As will the PMMail/2 version be.

>
>>Perhaps we will all be surprised by what Southsoft are able to do (assuming
>>that they read and act upon comments in this list) but I wouldn't bank on it
>>just yet.
>
>    At present they will not act upon comments on this list.  AFAIK, Bob and
>Ike haven't subscribed to it.  :)
>

That's why I said don't bank on it! I'm sure they're too busy to read
all this stuff.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

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