Does anyone have any information about the current state of both
branches? Both source locations as well as what's broken ?
I wouldn't mind taking a look to see the state of things and see just
how bad everything is.
It seems as though "Stepping on Alcors shoes" is almost a non-
possibility at this moment because he doesn't have the interest / time
to take QS further.
- Griffin
On Jun 1, 2008, at 3:01 AM, nontoppo wrote:
On May 31, 8:13 pm, NovaScotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it has a learning curve and Apple doesn't like learning curves. Is
there no hope that some member of the consortium of developers that
worked with Alcor has any ambition to continue? Is QS really going to
remain dead in the water?
It really surprises me that no one has stepped up. QS has one of the
most dedicated and fanatical userbases (steadily eroding) of any Mac
software, and is one of the most brilliant thought out interfaces ever
on any platform (talked about enviously by Windows and *nix users
alike). It has been opensourced and sits in a repository for someone
to hack on. Many of us are willing to give *very* generously to a tip
jar, and thus there is a financial incentive that is probably greater
than many other opensource projects combined (though there are some
ethical issues involved there).
I think devs don't touch it because it is considered a dead branch
with Alcor working on a new core (i.e. they don't want to step on his
shoes). However that work is stalled (no activity in Google code for
months), and thus the whole endeavour is frozen in stasis. No one
wants to waste time on a dead branch, and yet the new tree is frozen
in its growth.
We have to be grateful to alcor (and the legion of QS users who
contributed to its development, and people like Howard for his amazing
documentation). It is really sad to see such energy slowly dissipate
away, leaving us with broken brilliance.
My only hope is that another young gun takes the ideas contained
within quicksilver, along with new ideas and amkes something even
better. Alternatively Google gives Alcor a 6 month sabbatical for the
good of OS X and makes QS II part of its stable of tools.
