[TxMt] Re: prerelease

[Marc Chanliau]

Dude, you should be nicer. Your product is not free, we pay for it (which
is fine), so there's such a thing called "customer service." Customers are
pesky in general so you need to be patient with them otherwise you sound
like a Google employee!
Just saying...

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>wrote:

> Please stop this nonsense!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> ¹ http://macromates.com/license_policy
>
>
>
>
> On 7 Dec 2011, at 14:11, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Once again I don't need TM2, I just need to have couple of issues fixed
> in TM1.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Adam Strzelecki
> >
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