[TxMt] Re: Honest assessment of TM2's state please!

[Watts Martin]

David Clark wrote:

> Alan does not owe anybody anything.
>
> If you are unhappy with TM1 use another application - end of story.

The problem is that since TextMate 2 was announced -- which at this 
point is well over three years ago -- there's been very little other 
than maintenance releases on TM 1, and sometimes those have been few and 
far between. While this is a subjective measure, by my count the last 
substantive new features to TM 1 were added in 2008.

We were told, in June 2009, that work was 90% completed. "I use 2.0 for 
my own work, day-to-day, and the basic infrastructure is pretty solid," 
Allan wrote then. "Hopefully an alpha version will be ready before too 
long."

That was nearly two years ago. And it's nearly a year and a half past 
the followup post in January 2010 that referred to "the version I hope 
to release in maybe half a year."

It's kind of tough to swallow the implicit argument that now, as we head 
into May 2011, there still isn't anything that's releasable as an alpha. 
And *that's* what has people worried, I think, more than anything else.

-- 
Watts Martin <layotl at gmail.com>

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