| said by ilhy:When will it be available? When I first mentioned the project a few months ago, I was hoping it would only take another few weeks. As a former manager of mine once remarked, you ask an engineer for a time estimate, then you have to tripple it, and again double it before passing it on to upper management. Truth be told, I don't have the remotest clue how much longer it will take. What I do know, is that there's lots of work left:
• Many features are still buggy, incomplete, or not yet implemented. This is especially true of parts of the SuqashFS file system support, which I decided to add to the project some three weeks ago. It's a rewrite from scratch not based on any open source project. Also, conversion between Linux symlinks and Windows shortcuts is still in the works.
• My current code uses the public domain LZMA library from Igor Pavlov's latest 7Zip SDK. However, I'm currently rewriting all LZMA code from scratch--in assembly language. This will take a while.
• There are lots of user interface details that need work--the tedious, boring kind of work I usually end up deferring until later, but eventually have to get done.
• I haven't even started looking into how to do the online help. Can't release the program, not even for beta test, without at least some form of online/context help.
• Although not relevant to the free limited beta test, there are lots of issues to be worked out as to how the program's to be marketed eventually, if at all.
Bottom line, I can't give a meaningful ETA yet. |
