From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA00779 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:25:41 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA23884 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:22:10 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12524; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:17:22 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:16:32 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9508160016.AA21032@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: Mark Borges Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: I'm on vacation! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 1995 17:48:18 MDT." <9508152348.AA21478@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:16:32 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"1RF3O1.0.Y33.HaJCm"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/318 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > RC> I'm aheading out for vacation now and will be back > RC> in a week. Then I'm finish up beta11. > > It's been over three weeks since the last I heard from Richard. > Richard, are you there? Anyone know if he made it back? Yep, I'm back. As soon as I got back, my boss went on vacation for two weeks, so I've been fairly busy. I started back working on zsh about four or five days ago and have been making some good progress. As I mentioned before, I've been working on splitting the cmdnamtab hash table into three different hash tables (cmdnamtab, builtintab, shfunctab). This has resulted in much cleaner code in many places as well as some potential speedups. This has been a much bigger job than I expected (isn't it always!) so the next beta is taking much longer than I expected. But the new code seems pretty clean, so I think it will be worth the work. I realize that everyone is anxious for beta11. Probably in about a week or two I will start making test releases. With all the changes I've made, we will dip back to alpha status for a short period of time. But that shouldn't last too long. One problem is that I've been doing so much work on my own changes that I'm about a million (feels like it anyway) patches behind. But it shouldn't take too long to catch up since the changes I'm making seem to be somewhat independent of things other people are working on. Richard Coleman zsh@math.gatech.edu coleman@math.gatech.edu