(Weekly?) Update!

We've been pretty busy here at The Ignition Project. First off, I've been working hard on rewriting a major portion of the MODE handling code. Now, just about every bug in it should be fixed, and it should be way more optimized (the old code did string comparisons -- the new code compares numbers, which is much faster). I also plan on starting the development of (probably the most awaited feature of all time) DATA/REQUEST/REPLY tonight or tomorrow. Kind of depends on whether or not I get tired of playing Final Fantasy III before I feel sleepy.

I'm also in need of a few testers to tell me exactly what is wrong with our linking capabilities. That way, ignitionServer 0.3.3 can hopefully have working (or mostly working) linking. Here's the information on how to test:

1. Download either a release version or a CVS version (I would prefer you downloaded a CVS version, if at all possible [you'll need VB6 to compile it]) of ignitionServer and install it. You'll also need to install a second copy (of the same version, please!) somewhere else on your computer.
2. Configure your first ignitionServer to link to the second ignitionServer, and set X:ALLOWMULTIPLE on both servers to 1 (i.e. allow multiple instances).
3. Play with both servers and see if you can come up with any bugs (well, I know you will ;) ). Then, report the bugs under ignitionServer-Core. Give a full report on how to reproduce the bug, what the bug does, what you did to cause the bug, etc. Please be very specific and clear in the report.

Also, please don't even try to bugtest linking unless you understand how linking works and know how to configure ignitionServer. I would also prefer you only bugtest if you bugtest a CVS version, but you can bugtest a release version if that's your only choice.

P.S. You don't need to ask permission to bugtest; just go ahead and do it. We're open source, remember ☺