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

[Michael Gregoire]

Court,

We get that you work for BBEdit already. Please enough.

Mike


On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Court K. 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:
>
>>
>> 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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