On (29 Oct 94) Brenton Vettoretti wrote to Keith Richardson...



 PE> What CD image?  Is this the one with all the Borland compilers

 PE> etc on it?  BFN.  Paul.

 BV> Sorta. I've got all the development tools I have used and all my

 BV> source code along with lots of other stuff which will be useful and

 BV> it hasn't left any room for any Borland stuff. The Borland stuff

 BV> might have to wait for the next one. This one is sort of like a

 BV> snapshot of my lifes work and the current software I use so it won't

 BV> be available to anyone else.



 KR> i assume that you bought your cd rom writer,



 BV> No. I haven't bought one. I occasionally do some work for a crowd

 BV> which has one. I was helping them out a few weeks ago and it acted

 BV> I've got it right. The idea is that within 2 minutes, I can reload



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 BV> project and any development or reference tools associated with it.

 

hokay, sounds reasonable



 KR> what happened to the "best of" collection you were going
to publish?



 BV> I will look at doing that one when I have this one finished. No doubt

 BV> much of the tech-ref stuff will be duplicated and I will end up with

 BV> some compilers on both CD's, but that won't worry me to much. The

 BV> second one will me much more general in nature and as such, I will

 BV> be requesting input from any parties interested in contributing.

 BV> The idea for that one is to put all the commercial compilers and

 BV> libraries of interest in one place. As much tech-ref stuff as we can

 BV> find and ditto for public-domain or "otherwise acquired"
source code.

 BV> I wouldn't expect anyone to submit personal code which they don't

 BV> want anyone else to have.



sounds good, what gives me the shits with most of the cd offerings is

that they try to cram the max on. this means that they fill the thing up

with low grade zipped crap just to say that they are giving  more

megabytes than the next collection. i'd rather see a smaller amount of

good stuff that you can run, or refer to straight off the cd. after all,

what does it achieve if you have to transfer the stuff to an already

overcrowded hard disk just to use it?



                        Keith



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