[Coco] Supercomm fails to load on NitrOS9 lvl 2 on my CoCo 3 with 128K, and a couple of other questions?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 02 November 2015 17:22:28 Tormod Volden wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> > Gene, I didn't say the L3 shouldn't be in the repo... just that the
> > non-working compiled disk images should not be in the public
> > downloads. That is for WORKING stuff, not broken stuff. Personally,
> > I'd love to see the L3 work and have worked on it myself (as you
> > know), but to put non-working stuff in the public downloads is
> > confusing to the user and they think it's supposed to work.
>
> The L3 images are not in the normal download area, only in the
> development snapshots which are /not/ guaranteed to be working stuff.
> Maybe it is not so useful to include them in the development snapshots
> either but it helps to have it regularly built after any changes and
> potentially for people helping out testing. If there is any
> development on it, that is... However it can be tuned to be built but
> not packaged into images.
>
> What might be confusing is that the development snapshot URL contains
> "latest" which people might associate with releases. We may change
> that to something more fitting, like "snapshots" which is commonly
> used for such things.
>
> Regards,
> Tormod

That seem like a good idea to me, Tormod. The word "latest" does seem to 
imply that all the bugs have been fixed and it will even run on a PPC 
Mac.  Snapshot OTOH, has more of a "let's see if this works" flavor to 
it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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