Re: {bb} BBGen Questions, 4.0 Release Date, et al...

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <5D200A6BB92BB54F8E2FED8E4A28D763033CEB03@RRMAILER.rr.com> "Tyler, Lowell" <ltyler@rr.com> writes:

>Is there an updated timeframe as to when we can expect the release of
>BBGen 4.0?  The BBGen website mentioned Christmas.
>Can BBGen be used with BB Professional?

Yes, it's taken a while longer than I first expected (sounds like
the story of most software projects, doesn't it?)

The current status is:
* I've had some feedback from beta-testers, and combined with the
  additional features that were requested where I work it means
  that there will be an extra beta-release (beta 4). I expect
  to ship this to the beta-testers today and see what they find.
  So the official release is now expected by the end of January.
* I've spent the Christmas holidays getting documentation into
  shape. If you go to http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ and open up the
  "Help" menu, you'll find a lot more up-to-date information.
* And yes - the alert reader will notice that the name of the
  project has changed. It is now called "Hobbit".
* The current (3.5) version of bbgen will work with BB Prof. Ed.
  Version 4 will too, in the sense that you can use the same 
  tools that you used in version 3. However, if you install the
  full version 4 then there is none of the original Big Brother
  code left on the BB server - Hobbit completely replaces the
  server-side of Big Brother.

>Also, does anyone know what Quest's official stand is on Big Brother
>support when BBGen has been integrated?

I have no idea what Quest thinks of this project - there is no
relation between me and Quest, or between me and Sean & Robert for
that matter. 

I'm curious what you are referring to by Quest "integrating" bbgen -
into BBPE, or what ? This is news to me.

One of the reasons I changed the name from bbgen to Hobbit was to make
it clearer that Hobbit is an independent project that is not related
to Big Brother.


Henrik
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