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

[David Clark]

Curt,

Would you PLEASE shut the hell up already? You have made your point
(twice) and you you in the minority.

TM is clearly not for you -- oh well. Please move on, the rest of us are happy

On 6/27/06, Court K. <lists at courtkizer.com> wrote:
>
> Fred:
>
> It's not about a stupid little $500 to code my feature in. How much money
> would it cost me to buy textmate, as well as the programming team for one
> year? $500,000? More? How much should my feature cost? Because I'm just
> about willing to pay any price. I've already posted 3 job positions in san
> francisco for x-code developers to either write a bundle (i don't think it
> would allow me to have a full browser), or build me an editor that would.
>
> TextMate makes bold claims everywhere on the front page about being "the
> missing editor for the 21st century", why is it so wrong for me to ask it to
> live up to those claims in a similar bold fashion. It's not like I'm
> requesting syntax highlighting for some obscure language written 10 years
> ago.
>
> -Court
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Fred B. wrote:
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> On 27 Jun 2006, at 15:41, Jeffrey Robert Spies wrote:
> I'm really quite disappointed in how the list has responded to Court K.'s
> feature request.  He explained what he was looking for and why it would be
> valuable, and even offered a monetary bonus for someone to work on it (plus
> assistance with UI design, if I remember correctly).  If you don't want to
> help out w/ CVS support, why is it necessary to bash CVS or this guy for
> doing what everyone else does when they would like to see a feature added to
> TextMate?  It just doesn't seem very constructive, but maybe I'm confused as
> to what this list is for other than praising Allan and evidently promoting
> Subversion.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with how he requested it? Just maybe. ;)
>
> With affirmation like "Textmate as an editor is nothing without CVS
> support",  "The one and only thing the developers should focus on right now
> is. CONNECTIVITY", "not that crappy bundle that's going around", etc., I
> don't think it's a good way to introduce yourself and make a feature
> request. Everyone and is mom has THE absolute missing feature that is so
> easy to implement. The assumption that everyone has the same request than
> you won't help because it's not true, most answers talking about svn where
> just pointing that.
>
> Allan is the one who decide what comes next and he already wrote that
> connectivity improvements are on the todo. Thinking he will change his plans
> or suddenly code faster to earn a whooping $500 is a bit immature IMHO.
>
> I'd recommend searching the archives first, then, as Jonathan pointed,
> reading Brent Simmons' post[1], which, BTW, is not Jonathan posting about
> how he hates feature requests, but a post of the NetNewsWire's dev.
> explaining how to make feature requests that might have a chance to succeed.
>
> This list is friendly, keep it that way.
>
> [1]http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3291
>
> --
> FredB
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