[Nexus-developers] FW: RE: NAPI 3.0 beta projected release - May 20, 2005

[Nick Maliszewskyj]

Greetings everybody,

 From what I gather at least two of the major features in the changes
list I synopsized last week (XML support and complete implementation
in C of the NXU utility) are in a state which may take a few weeks to
sort out.

At this point I feel that it's important to get some form of release
out in the short term, if only to address known bugs. I see there are
two possible options:

   1) push back the release date for 3.0 (nix the
      beta, per Mark) by a few weeks (Is that enough?)
or
   2) assemble what there is right now, minus the XML/NXU support
      to release a 2.1, with the 3.0 to be released shortly thereafter

Personally, I'm in favor option #1 if those who are actually doing the
work don't mind the heat. I'm even in a position to help out a little.

Regarding mxml, requiring mxml < 2.2 is not unreasonable. This sort of
dependency is not unusual so long as 2.1 remains available.

Nick

Ray Osborn wrote:

>>From: Mark Koennecke [mailto:Mark.Koennecke at psi.ch]
>>Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] RE: NAPI 3.0 beta projected release - May 20,
>>2005
>>
>>High everyone,
>>
>>concerning 3.0. The anomaly with XML reported by Ray and (privately) by
>>Freddy is fixed (in my copy). Mxml 2.2 handles the ?xml tag differently then
>>the older mxml versions.
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Mark,
>Did you need to fix MXML or NAPI?  If the problem is with MXML, can we fix
>it by requiring everyone to install an earlier version (2.1?)?  If not, we
>will have to wait for the author of MXML to release a fix before we release
>an XML version of NAPI.
>
>Best regards,
>Ray
>  
>

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