Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Colin Smith wrote:
>
> > How about 2 parallel versions?
> >
> > A developers version that has all the latest features but is not
> > necessarily considered stable or backwards compatible and a stable
> > version that doesn't implement new features, but does implement bug
> > fixes to existing features.
> >
> > The Linux kernel has been developed successfully in this manner for a
> > few years now.
>
> Well, I'm not speaking for Stewart, but this sounds like too much work
> for just one person.
>
> Given that the current vTcl isn't up to handling very large applications
> (multiple source files, etc), and other missing features, I consider it
> a prototype, beta, or a work-in-progress and don't think it's future
> direction is obligated to support past trials.
>
> I have a very important, very useful application that I've done with
> vTcl, but I consider the rapid improvement and deployment of an improved
> vTcl (so I can use it on even more projects) much more important than
> ongoing downward-compatability with (or support of) the current vTcl
> version and whatever applications have been built with it.
>
> The current user base of vTcl is surely only a fraction of what it
> can/could/will be, and vTcl's future shouldn't be hindered or corrupted
> by past designs now abondoned.
>
> In other words, if all the current vTcl users got pissed and walked
> away, in the end the new vTcl will have many more users because of the
> changes. This is an exaggeration, but I'm just illustrating my point.
>
> I have no idea if Stewart sees it this way, but this is what I would
> expect for a one-man freeware program.
I just wanted to express support for Rick's assessment of the situation on
this matter.
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