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well I guess Khaled decided to beat the record for the next release ;b

You forgot the biggie... The type 4 ban bug in V5.71. :tongue:

You have WAY too much time on your hands, lol :tongue:

Well... some weeks ago I used MS Excel in order to plot a graphic showing The mIRC release dates against mIRC version:

I hope the graphic appears... otherwise goto http://www.augux.hpg.com.br/mirc_versions.jpg

As you can see, this is a simple graphic. But it's useful if you have nothing to do!!!

BTW, the vertical lines represent January 1st.

Bye!

As poppy pointed out, ya'll have alot of time on your hands...LOL

LOL, this is just too good! How about a graph showing release dates relative to the number of changes made?

*drool*

I got a little bored and made a few charts: http://chris.d0rk.org/misc/mirc-versions/images/

You can grab the source to the perl script I wrote to generate those here (the actual script is mirc-versions.pl). It will even work in the future as long as the format of versions.txt stays the same. (Note: If you're not familiar with Perl, then you probably shouldn't bother downloading the script.)

Enjoy

-chris

Oh. My. God.

LOL well I think its safe to say you got everyone beat on charting the realease of each version...LOL

If I had to guess, it will either be March of April a new release will be made. Most likey April I bet.

Sunday April 6th, 2003

That's around the time it should be released provided he doesn't want to break a record. I hope I didn't miscalculate this.

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Sunday April 6th, 2003

That's around the time it should be released provided he doesn't want to break a record. I hope I didn't miscalculate this.

Posted: 12/04/2003

I think you may have miscalculated.

Yep you definately miscalculated....Its the 12th of April now

Oops, I should have realized he went past the date. Well, he's breaking a record, neat.

LOL well then anyone care to wager on how long it will take? LOL

*Throws $20 US dollars into the pool*

it will be released on the day its ready ...... do i win the 20 bucks? hahaha

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do i win the 20 bucks? hahaha

Not quite lol....but if everyone adds to the pool well the beer is on the winner...hehehe

I parsed versions.txt to convert all release dates to ctimes, then used Vernier Software's Graphical Analysis to graph ctime-since-first-version vs. version number. I noticed it looked like a square root function, which is really a power function, so I told the software to fit a power function to the data. It gave me the equation and showed the curve on the data, and it looked good. I then solved the function for its variable to get a function I can use to predict the release date of a future version of mIRC. I assumed the next version will be 6.1, since it is taking so long, so I plugged it in. The date I came up with:
Jan 2, 2003.
Apparently Khaled is getting slow in his old age, or something

-Nemo

Let's look at it this way. August 2002 to February 2004. Now, Aug 2002 was when the last one was released. February 2004 will probably be the next release after the next one, since doing it around it's birthday seems nice. Now, that's 18 months inbetween those two dates above. I take 18/2, and get 9 months. So I take 9, add it to August 2002, and get May 2003. So chances are great for May/June 2003. At least my chances of getting this right aren't as bad as the chances George W. Bush has at getting reelected, with all of those predictions going against him from every source.

Nemo: Try integrating the number of features/bugs fixed into your analysis

i doubt khaled is getting slow, if anything Id say that alot of updates occur at the beginninng because itwas a baby.. now its maturing as a program and theres just not as many major issues. Any good update now would require possible MAJOR changes and that would require more time to implement.