From: Aaron Montgomery (monster0@GTE.NET)
Date: 11 Mar 00, 05:16 EST
From: Aaron Montgomery <monster0@GTE.NET> Subject: Re: Confusion about Alpha >Could someone tell me what is the status of Alpha? Pete (the original author of Alpha) has gotten a "real" job and so he is not continuing work on the project. He has handed off the (C) source code to a group of programmers known as the Alpha Cabal (I'm one of them) who are trying (in their spare time) to create an Alpha 8 (which has been updated for things like Appearance Manager, Navigation Services, and so on). In the meantime, some of these programmers are doing incremental changes to Alpha 7 (I'm not in this group). The Alpha 7.3 you have (via Version Tracker) comes from this group. The developers list is probably the best place to find out about what is going on with Alpha. Most (all?) of the programmers in the cabal are probably on it and I hear that Pete still reads this stuff. Hope that helps explain what is going on. Aaron <finger:agm@purduenc.edu> <mailto:agm@purduenc.edu> <http://faculty.purduenc.edu/agm/>