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List:       freenet-dev
Subject:    Re: [Freenet-dev] The last (?) word on a quick-release 0.2  music client
From:       willdye () freedom ! net
Date:       2000-07-31 22:09:30
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Scott wrote:

> 0.3 isn't really far off.  Two weeks at the absolute latest.  Besides,
> Napster isn't going down until at least Sept 12th, according to the
> papers.

Yup.  There's no sense developing an 0.2 client this late unless we 
absolutely have to.  If all we needed was some pretty wapping paper and 
some ugly out-of-band communications to get file directories, it would 
be a different story.  So it goes.

Oh, I may not have made this clear before: I don't plan on doing music 
clients at all now.  My focus was on the get-it-out fast aspect, since I 
can whip up a GUI pretty rapidly (especially in TCL/Tk).  If the time to 
market is extended, however, then my existing skill-set is of little 
value.  'Better to spend my time learning Java.  

FWIW, I've been contacted by others who are working on such clients, and 
they sounded like they'd be ready Real Soon Now.  Unless they all fall 
down at once, I expect that 0.3 will indeed have a music client or two 
attempting to run on it.  This creates a very real possibility that 0.3 
will face the "catches on like wildfire" scenario.  IMO, this possibilty 
translates into additional pressure on developers to insure that 0.3 
will work "right"; or at least to advertise early and often that the 
Freenet code can't handle that kind of growth yet.  

May you live in interesting times.  :-)

--Will

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