On Nov 21, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
... I don't think lifting the bundles wholesale is going to do much use for anyone.
-Jacob
I could hardly disagree more ;)
I love TextMate, but I like the bundles more.
I love the idea of tmBundles (and their associated innards) being completely application agnostic. I would love for the bundle community to have an influx of seriously talented programmers. How could that possibly hurt us?
The fact is that Windows has the largest number of total users. And Linux has a massive collection of brilliantly talented sharing developers. I think it could only help us for all of these developers to have an application (or applications) that take advantage of TextMate's bundle formats.
The only people who might not want anyone making a bundle utilizing app would be Apple. Since so many people have bought macs just to use TextMate. Other then them, maybe Allan. But he made these formats open and has absolutely no interest in making TextMate cross-platform.
I think this will be good for Allan. This is good for TextMate. But, mostly, this is great for me and all the other programmers on earth. Thanks to Allan (and probly a few other people), we have these great open formats that don't trap our code into proprietary boxes. Soon we'll have even more great people improving TextMate by making and improving the bundles.
I do worry that if we ever lost Allan leading the pack, we would lose all direction and would gain some serious bloat. We have to make dang sure we help Allan keep TextMate in control of these formats. At least until they're advanced to a point where it wouldn't be easy to break them.
Can you imagine a distant future where even BBEdit, Dreamweaver and Visual Studio are compatable with the TextMate bundles? How stinking awesome would that be? Every developer on earth would get to go blind with my themes ;)
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