On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Gerd wrote:
> There's one thing that should be added here. Obviously, there has
> been no further development on BPQ since version 4.08a, which is
> available for quite a couple of years now.
> That indicates for several people including me, that the author does
> not work on the program any more.
I believe a statement has been made to this effect by G8BPQ.
Certainly G4IDE (the author of WinPack) has issued a patch to solve
a problem, simply because the BPQ switch code won't be updated.
> Therefore, it can't be such a bad idea to release the sources of this
> masterpiece of software to the public. A hint mentioning that
> there's no support for this code or program by the author may be
> included. I think many people could deal with that.
I think I'd prefer if a "hard-core" group took over maintenance,
rather than making the source generally available. From what I
understand, there's some pretty freaky coding in it.
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