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I'd recommend shooting anyone who told you 0.17 is right around the
corner.  I'm fairly familiar with it, and it's nowhere in sight.  It's
being worked on, but alot of changes were made, and alot of code
is/was/will be rewritten.  I'd be suprised to see 0.17 work well in the
next 8 months, but I'd expect it to work fairly well in 12-18.
	Nick

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On December 10, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >   It's buggy as hell on everything but Linux on a crappy Intel
> > > processor.
> > 
> > That explains why I haven't had much trouble with it.  I've barely touched
> > irix with it.  
> 
>   That explains it. :-)
> 
> > So, are you actually trying to get the GNOME desktop going on your Impact?  
> 
>   I've been trying for ten hours.  I'm about to give up.
> 
> > I hope that it works better than enlightenment does on an O2.  I hope never to
> > repeat that horror.
> 
>   I don't think I'll ever know.  Enlightenment is unbelievably slow, and
> has been sitting at release 0.16.5 for like a year.  The authors have
> been saying stuff like "0.17 is just around the corner!" and "very
> exciting work happening this week!" for the past six months at least.
> I think it's dead, or close to it.
> 
>   I *really* like KDE, and I worked for days getting KDE v1 built under
> IRIX about two years ago...but the mailer was very unstable at the
> time (as in..."losing mail" unstable), and neither of the two
> newsreaders would even start up.  I'd really like to run KDE2, but it
> isn't even close to being compilable...and it's written in completely
> incomprehensible C++ that the developers don't seem interested in
> making portable.  Every few months someone files a bug report about
> their IRIX compilation failures, some by seemingly accomplished C++
> people who, despite their knowledge of the language, STILL can't make
> heads or tails of that code...and the pleas for help go unacknowledged
> and unaddressed.
> 
>    *GRUMBLE*
> 
>      -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL
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