[TxMt] How Long Must We Wait for CVS Support?

[Court K.]

Again, everyone is posting about me posting twice, I explained this,  
I resubscribed to the list with a different email address, and didn't  
realize the first message went through. It was a accident.

-Court





On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Methnen (AKA Jamie) wrote:

> On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Court K. wrote:
>> Yes, thanks this still doesn't solve any problems. Rather than  
>> spending an hour posting on a blog about how you hate feature  
>> requests, why not just implement the really good ones?. Especially  
>> Really Good CVS, Subversion, SFTP, Editing over the networking  
>> stuff. There is not one single good CVS client for mac, eclipse,  
>> zend studio, all of them suck, yet textmate "is the missing editor  
>> for the 21st century", Well in the 21st century almost every file  
>> is edited online and checked into a versioning system. And of  
>> course since the author wouldn't want to put it to a vote, (even  
>> though every single person using TextMate) would want CVS support  
>> built in... I guess we're just out of luck.
>
> Court, why did you send the same post again?  Isn't this the second  
> time you sent the same email?  The first time you sent the request  
> someone answered you quite directly saying that SFTP and FTP were  
> both something the next major version would likely have as Alan has  
> said they are on his list.
>
> And as has been stated your opinion of important isn't necessarily  
> everyone else's.  Nor is it necessarily the opinion held by even  
> "most" people.
>
> The current subversion support is more than enough for my needs and  
> obviously its more than enough for most of the other people using  
> it or we would hear more complaints.  And we don't.  That blog post  
> was actually posted by someone else (I believe the author of  
> BBEdit).  The person was just pointing out (by providing a link to  
> someone else's blog post) that your way of going about requesting  
> wasn't likely to elicit a positive response simply because everyone  
> has their own ideas about what is important and you aren't  
> necessarily tapped into those ideas nearly as well as you may think  
> you are.
>
>> I'm irritated that the only comments have been, about the actual  
>> comment an not the feature I'm requesting, or others have  
>> requested. If textmate really isn't interested in becoming the  
>> missing editor for the 21st century, then I'm going to post, a  
>> $20,000 bounty for several x-code developers to make me a near  
>> duplicate of textmate with full cvs browser, subversion, browser,  
>> sftp, and network connectivity and give it for free.
>
> If you have that much money more power to you.  But I can tell you,  
> most competent programmers are going to need heck of a lot more  
> money than that to motivate them.  Good luck with that.
>
> Jamie
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