Version 2 beta -- When?

[Borre Ludvigsen]

On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, William Shipley wrote:

> We probably won't have a really nice beta of 2.0 until November.  =
> Unfortunately we got very badly burned on 1.0 by releasing betas that were =
> not ready for prime time, so our new policy is not to release a beta until =
> we really feel it's solid.  Personally, I think the customers lose with =
> this, but we had too damn many people judging us by the 0.9.3 release, and =
> in fact people are still using 0.9.3 and sending us bug reports about it.

Don't let it worry you too much - you're doing an EXCELLENT job and we
really appreciate it.

> The current feature list for 2.0 includes PDF support, tables, font size =
> extensions, background images, incremental image display, true =
> multi-threading, and loadable converter bundles.  You should be able to =
> create your own protocols, converters, and HTML extensions -- the =
> interface will be documented, and many of our converters will actually =
> ship as bundles to speed up launch time.

As a matter of interest, where does that leave JAVA support?