will irrlicht 1.0 be finished before january 2006. ??

TheHitchhiker · Post by **TheHitchhiker** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:28 pm

We all know that Niko is doing a great and 100% voluntary job in his FREE time and we do respect that, and no one can ask him to work more, but I would like to know how the things will work in future.

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:54 pm

Well its 0.8 now, and for me it took Niko 4 months to do the next installment, maybe the same amount of time to get to 0.9...

It also depends I think on how much time Niko can spend developing...

It was rumoured as well as soon as it got to 1.0 it would become CVS, but I don't think is going to happen is it Niko?? Since IrrlichtNX++ is available for CVS development...

Edit: Get rid of me being a muppet...

jox · Post by **jox** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:23 pm

What do you expect from version 1.0? It won't magically change into something different. So far each version was += 0.1 . I guess version 1.0 will be not so much different. Sure, it's gonne still be some kind of special. Like a birthday, where you're one year older, but, did you really change into something different? Maybe in your mind.

These are just my guesses. It's still possible that Niko will do something surprising with 1.0 . But it might still have bugs and issues..

edit: Well, normaly a major version change happens when a product reaches a certain level (of completeness or stability etc.) or other major changes were applied to it and not when a certain amount of releases happened (like it seems to happen with irrlicht). BUT, Niko might have planned and coordinated his development that right this will be the case with 1.0. Dunno

another edit: maybe after 0.9 Niko will continue with 0.9.1, 0.9.2, etc.

Pr3t3nd3r · Post by **Pr3t3nd3r** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:02 pm

0.91 ... 0.92 that sound cool

It dosn't mater what version it is. What is important it what it can do ...

jox · Post by **jox** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:23 pm

Pr3t3nd3r wrote:It dosn't mater what version it is. What is important it what it can do ...

Wisely spoken!

(badly written though

)

cartoonit · Post by **cartoonit** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:39 am

@ jox: I expect a dragon from Irrlicht 1.0

and some of your cool bug fixes, although I have most of them already integrated in to the engine...

I put 0.9, oops were still on 0.8, cheez no wonder I've not got far on my report today, with errors like this..

I apologise, the website is correct Niko, I need to engage brain a little more...

niko · Post by **niko** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:30 am

If you take a look at http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/development.html, you'll see that there are not that much features missing. I think 1.0 until Jan 2006 could be achieve without a problem. But it won't contain very special features, the only difference will be that the 1.0 realease should be tested and bugfixed more than any other release, including some release candidates etc.
Hehe, and yes, 0.10 does not sound as cool as 0.8 or 0.9 does. Maybe we should go on with 0.91, 0.92 etc after that.. Just some marketing thoughts.

Testur · Post by **Testur** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:21 am

What about 0.95beta.v2?

niko · Post by **niko** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:14 pm

Or adding a '9' every release. 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999. In this way we will really converge against 1.0

cmoibenlepro · Post by **cmoibenlepro** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:03 am

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:19 am

niko wrote:Or adding a '9' every release. 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999. In this way we will really converge against 1.0

LOL yeah that would make people think when the hell is 1.0 coming out!

jox · Post by **jox** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:48 am

It's gonna be hard to distinguish 0.99999999999999 from 0.9999999999999...

buhatkj · Post by **buhatkj** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:05 am

despite us all knowing better, somehow in the eyes of a lot of people out there having a 1.0 release (bug-free & fully-featured or not...) is some sort of "coming of age" for an OSS project. Gives us legitimacy. Perhaps could help to catch the eye of more commercial developers who want to take advantage of Irrlicht's nice Zlib license to make use of it commercially.
This Might seem silly given my present stage of developement, but it has always been my intent to one day fork Fnord into a commercial engine. Some day I actually would like to be able to work on this stuff full-time and make a living off it if possible. Unlikely maybe, but a nice thought

testur · Post by **testur** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:59 am

niko wrote:Or adding a '9' every release. 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999. In this way we will really converge against 1.0

Just wait 'til it's up to version 3.1415926535

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:52 pm

Nah.. people always think of versions as going up. I like to think of them like a rocket countdown.

Let's start subratcting.

0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0 - BLASTOFF!

Irrlicht Engine

will irrlicht 1.0 be finished before january 2006. ??

will irrlicht 1.0 be finished before january 2006. ??

more seriously...