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This was discussed months ago and it was ready months ago. What in the world could take so long?
There's ready and there's 80% ready. Roadshow was 80% ready when the DHCP client bug fix was implemented and tested. The remaining tasks were 1) to find a publisher or publish Roadshow myself, 2) write installation instructions, a tutorial and a reference manual, 3) compile the distribution files and write an installation script, and 4) set up a web site and payment system and make the product available.
All but the last task have been taken care of. I'd like to think that I used to be a wee bit faster at writing manuals and installation scripts than I am today, but that's probably just delusion
But this stuff takes its time if you want to produce something that satisfies you.
For all the software I wrote by myself, I always attempted to make something that I would find useful. Hence the 112 page tutorial/reference manual, which has absolutely everything in it, and the installer script which not only installs the software, but can uninstall it again, too, and make backup copies of your configuration files.
Some may view this as gold plating, and there certainly is the danger here to go overboard and go from 80% ready to 90% ready, to 95%, to 97.5%, to 98.5%, to 99.7% and so forth in the Zeno school of product development. I hope that the end result will be more useful, and not just shinier as a consequence.
You are losing a lot of momentum.
Well, you'd have to thank mech for getting the ball rolling again, and far as I can tell the ball is still tumbling along. I'm going to see this through, even if it takes a bit longer. Part of the journey is getting there, but you might as well enjoy the journey itself, too
