[137] in installers
Re: eudora 3 for PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Wed Oct 1 15:27:44 1997
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 15:26:48 -0400
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>, "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>,
installers@MIT.EDU
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jjv@MIT.EDU, mdavies@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <v03020909b0584d88e11b@[18.81.0.167]>
I think that Mark's experience with the mink files may have been caused by
mixing the new mink-installed DLLs with a copy, perhaps, of kerb16 or
kclient.dll in the eudora directory on the PC. Eudora would need to call
kerberos, would find the older kclient in its directory and use it, and
then collide with incompatible DLLs in the c:\net\mit directory.
Fresh installs of Mink have not had this problem (i.e., on my machine or
the many others I have installed). I think Mark now agrees with me that
this may be the root cause of these difficulties. The installer may not do
as good a job as it could in tracking down all the older binaries all over
the system, but that's not its main job.
Everyone on the support side of the Eudora team think that the product
is ready to go and has been for quite a while.
Is there a big hold-up about mink caused by ESANDI incompatibilities?
That was what I understood to be causing whatever holdup there might now be.
Phyllis Galt has new Eudora 3 web pages ready to go. She had been waiting
for Eudora to appear in net-dist, and apparently Paul was avoiding doing
that because of the ESANDI glitch and administrivia within the installer
that Paul asked JJV to take care of.
Is there anything else holding it up from your perspective Paul?
Rob
At 02:59 PM 10/1/97 -0400, Alicia Allen wrote:
>I'm not clear what this has to do with releasing Eudora 3, these binaries
>get distributed with Eudora 2 as well, correct? Why hold up the new version
>of Eudora if these binaries are being distributed anyhow?
>
>Are these problems being worked on? I have not heard anything about progress
>on this front.
>
>Alicia
>
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>At 2:27 PM -0400 10/1/97, Paul B. Hill wrote:
>>According to Mark Davis from the help desk there is a major problem with
>>the Kerberos binaries installed by mink and that he recommends that users
>>install the old binaries instead. Given that helpsuper@mit.edu was cc'd on
>>that mail and that we heard no counter opinions from anyone on that list we
>>had assumed that this was the help desk's opinion and that those problems
>>needed to be fully resolved.
>>
>>At 01:46 PM 10/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>What happenned with this?
>>>I thought there were just a few minor changes to make.
>>>We've been getting more and more requests for it.
>>>A timeline would be great.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Alicia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Alicia Allen
>>>iggy@mit.edu (617) 253-0191
>>>Computing Help Desk MIT, 11-226
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>Alicia Allen
>iggy@mit.edu (617) 253-0191
>Computing Help Desk MIT, 11-226
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