[9] in Athena User Interface
Re: Athena User Interface Project seeks advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon May 1 13:53:26 2000
Message-ID: <Ut3QG_EGgE6e1=siM0@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:53:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
CC: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200005011730.NAA26643@twelve-monkeys.helixcode.com>
"Inquire not to the elves, for they will tell you both yes and no."
Excerpts from mail: 1-May-100 Re: Athena User Interface P.. Dan
Winship@helixcode.co (2020)
> (And 2.0 _will_ be out at the end of the summer. Too many companies'
> release schedules depend on it now. :-)
Alas, releases happen based on whether they work, not always on who
depends upon them.
Excerpts from mail: 1-May-100 Re: Athena User Interface P.. Dan
Winship@helixcode.co (2020)
> So you could get a working snapshot of things, and then develop against
> that, and let the mainline interfaces drift, and only sync up once a
> month or so. And once 2.0 is released, they'll stabilize.
On the surface, this sounds like a reasonable plan. But it hinges on a
being able to get that working snapshot in reasonable time.
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It seems like we have two very risky choices here:
Work with 1.0, except that the panel, and the file manager, and
possibly other major stuff will be completely rewritten by the time we
are ready to do real work.
Work with 2.0, except that we have no clue how much effort it is to get
the shifting sands of 2.0 to produce a reasonable prototype for
acceptance testing.
ghudson: Could you make some kind of assessment of this stuff and
venture an opinion how to proceed?
-wdc
