<div>True. This thread started out not as an accusation of any sorts, but more as a question about on what evening between now and the 24th people should hang up their socks (or whatever other custom they're used to at Christmas).<br></div><div><br></div>
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<span><div><div><div>Please stop this nonsense!</div><div><br></div><div>Christmas falls on the 24th of December (or 25th in some countries), we said a public alpha will be out before Christmas — posting that you don’t believe this, when you’ll be proven right or wrong in less than 3 weeks, doesn’t seem productive.</div><div><br></div><div>My life sure wouldn’t be worse if I didn’t have to deal with this topic on a regular basis, so your speculation is off — if you actually go look at the official 2.0 statement¹ we’ve had on our site for years, it makes it clear that there is no guarantee that 2.0 will come out — the posts in the past were prompted by pressure from the community about a status update coupled with me being in a productive phase making me less pessimistic about the project, yet I generally ended such posts with a disclaimer discouraging people from buying TM based on hopes of future improvements.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>¹ <a href="http://macromates.com/license_policy">http://macromates.com/license_policy</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 7 Dec 2011, at 14:11, Adam Strzelecki wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Let me put my 2 cents in the discussion. I do not believe we gonna see TM2 anytime soon, regardless Alan giving us a glimpse of hope we gonna see new shiny TM2 till end of this year. I am not a judge what is the real reason that we are promised to see alphas, betas, but none of the promises are ever fulfilled (so far).</div><div><br></div><div>I may only speculate (trying not to be troll here) that making an impression that TM2 is in steady development may be a good way to fight with possible competition, as nobody dares to start developing a new text editor that can be real threat for TextMate knowing that version 2 (aka Holy Grail) can be released anytime soon.</div><div><br></div><div>But for us TextMate users, it is no good at all. As the old long long standing bugs or feature request (i.e. line wrap with indentations or better memory handling for text files with really long lines) never going to be fixed, as it TM2 is the one to sort them out.</div><div><br></div><div>Once again I don't need TM2, I just need to have couple of issues fixed in TM1.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-- </div><div>Adam Strzelecki</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>textmate mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>textmate mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a></div></div></div></span>
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