As I mentioned earlier, it's been difficult to find time to get the code into a solid release state and do a formal release. Our sponsors keep our small team very busy developing new features. To relieve your frustration and ours, we're making the daily development code available. We don't consider this a release, just a code drop so that you can be fully up-to-date with ongoing development.
The daily code drop, hereafter posted nightly, is at http://builds.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
Patrick will soon post a summary of features we believe are new since the 0.5 release and refresh.
What remains to make a 1.0? Final definition and clean-up of the API, both the public and the protected interfaces, documentation, and resolution of important issues that users have identified in our bug tracker and on the forum. We do intend a 1.0, but don't know a delivery date yet.
Some will ask why we don't put the code under source control on SourceForge or somewhere else. The reason is that our sponsors rely on the consistency and correct operation of the daily code and want zero possibility of unauthorized modification, and we are required to minimize the possibility that code that is not supposed to be made public remains out of the public releases. The system we're announcing today is the best compromise among public and internal needs. (There are likely people reading this who want to argue the point, but please don't. We're doing all that we are able.)
Thanks for your continued support and for all the great apps you're developing. Interest in WWJ is the strongest it's ever been, and is clearly increasing.
The daily code drop, hereafter posted nightly, is at http://builds.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
Patrick will soon post a summary of features we believe are new since the 0.5 release and refresh.
What remains to make a 1.0? Final definition and clean-up of the API, both the public and the protected interfaces, documentation, and resolution of important issues that users have identified in our bug tracker and on the forum. We do intend a 1.0, but don't know a delivery date yet.
Some will ask why we don't put the code under source control on SourceForge or somewhere else. The reason is that our sponsors rely on the consistency and correct operation of the daily code and want zero possibility of unauthorized modification, and we are required to minimize the possibility that code that is not supposed to be made public remains out of the public releases. The system we're announcing today is the best compromise among public and internal needs. (There are likely people reading this who want to argue the point, but please don't. We're doing all that we are able.)
Thanks for your continued support and for all the great apps you're developing. Interest in WWJ is the strongest it's ever been, and is clearly increasing.
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