Meeting notes for 03/10/1999:

FORCE Priorities and coding priorities
(on a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being the highest)

FORCE:
Stability - 10
Done by the end of semester - 9
Meets the requirements to some minimal level - 8
(maybe lives on)
(learn something new)

Coding:
Robustness/Bug-freeness - 10
Testability - 10
Safety - 7
Simplicity - 6
Speed (minute fine-tuning) - 3
Maintainability - 2
Portability - 1
Size - 1
Reuse - 1

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RCS vs. CVS

RCS:
simple
safe
familiar
locking

CVS:
trees
new
no locking

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Outstanding issues:
gcc & gdb vs. cc + dbx - cc & dbx wins.
RCS vs. CVS - CVS wins.
gtk vs. motif - unresolved.
namespaces - out.

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Web page issues:

- make it accessible from outside the department
- make personal information (phone #, schedules) available on localhost only
- drop box will be created, everyone should drop copies of their stuff in 
  there.

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GUI task breakdown:

cmw:
keyboard shortcuts
menus 
palettes
dialogs

jun:
GUI architecting (prototyping)
help UI

mip:
function library
function window (variables, parameters, return values)