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Name choice for RC3
yop:
A bit of topic, I was just taking a look at the wiki and came across the roadmap and I 'm curious. Why is RC3 called Ephialtes? (It 's pretty clear why final RC is called Athenades though ;))
Must I say that I reeeeally like them?
*Ephialtes is the most famous traitor in Greek history. From his name comes the modern Greek word for "nightmare". Athenades was the one that eventually killed him.
Pecan:
--- Quote from: yop on April 07, 2006, 10:22:59 pm ---A bit of topic, I was just taking a look at the wiki and came across the roadmap and I 'm curious. Why is RC3 called Ephialtes? (It 's pretty clear why final RC is called Athenades though ;))
Must I say that I reeeeally like them?
*Ephialtes is the most famous traitor in Greek history. From his name comes the modern Greek word for "nightmare". Athenades was the one that eventually killed him.
--- End quote ---
See also:
http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=2202.msg21899#msg21899
Vampyre_Dark:
They were going to use LONGHORN, but it was taken.
thomas:
Several people accused us of treason because we kept adding features after releasing RC2, which seems to be a capital crime in their eyes. Even more so as in addition to changing the SDK and several major components, we did not take the time to write a roadmap, as they would expect from any decent project.
Therefore, the name for RC3 necessarily had to be a traitor's name. Yes, I'm a cynic, I know :)
Anyway, since we now had one Greek traitor and another Greek project leader, the other names had to be Greeks, too. As the different releases are related to each other, their respective names are, too.
The choice of Pheidippides probably needs no further explanation. The release dates were chosen to lie on weekends, so we have time for the releases.
Pheidippides is planned for centenary of the battle of Marathon (in the Spartan calendar).
Etienne:
Hello,
By the way, will the RC3, run under Win98 ? ( ANSI version?)
Thanks.
Etienne
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