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Originally Posted by fozzy71
It is worth mentioning that just because a BCP rep said their new hands format that will be compatible with HEM will be ready in 3-4 weeks, does not mean that we will support them as soon as they are being written to disc. Once the client is writing the hands our developers will need to do more work on the parser and there will have to be tons of internal testing to make sure the hands are being imported properly, and then we will have to work on HUD support, etc.
@BCP Rep - Does the post quoted above mean your current client will be writing the new HH format before the major client upgrade?
Just to clarify - I didn't say it would be ready in 3-4 weeks, I said at least 3-4 weeks. That was the rough "minimum" timeframe I had from WPN at the time. I think any information/timeframe from HEM themselves would be more reliable as I assume they are talking directly to the developers.
BTW it's not fair to blame HEM for this delay. The very reason HEM are not able to support the WPN client is because they are waiting for WPN to change the way their HH are written, and WPN have been promising to do this for months. From what I understand the way it is currently was setup speficially so it would be supported by PT, and for WPN to switch it to a HEM-supported format it would have broken the PT compatibility. Fixing this (getting WPN HH to a format which is supported by both PT and HEM) has been top of WPN's development list for months, but (AFAIK) other jobs keep getting pushed in front of the task.
I'm afraid that's all I know on this topic.