stepharo wrote >> We have no intention of producing an unfinished text model :). > Me neither with igor and txText yet life decided otherwise. You see I > spent at 10 months of salary on txText.
I'm not sure if the following qualifies as a rant, but I apologize in advance just in case... Hopefully the difference in this instance is that there is an entire team around this effort. It's just hard to be asked to trust after years of (albeit solo, usually unpaid) projects, touted as our future salvation, and then abandoned when "life got in the way" - e.g. (in no particular order, and some of these might not exactly fit into the above description) TxText, Nautilus, Spec, Amber, Simple Morphic / Morphic 3, NativeBoost, Rome (iirc the name), etc. The thing is that in niche (i.e. non-core dev) projects this path to failure seems to be the rule, and not an exception, especially when releases are put off indefinitely chasing perfection. I have a very personal experience of this since one of my first desires (a quick search of the mailing list shows a post as early as May 14, 2010!) was to implement VIM key bindings. Our exasperating text/editor model quickly ground the project to a halt. I feel like I've been waiting for a just-around-the-corner cleanup in this area for over 6 years now. Of course, I'm not complaining about the lack of result, just offering some context around the suspicion and concern about yet-another-reboot with not a single release in over 7 years. All that having been said, you're directions of investigation are very exciting and I look forward to the results! ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ANN-Sparta-v1-1-tp4919394p4919821.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
