Wirek: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "pspad" was clear enough to me that he is on his own in every aspect of the project - not only in programming but also in replying to various questions in many posts, bug reports, testing, debugging and even the design of the future version of the editor (based upon TBCEditor engine). Although "pspad" is complaining about lack of time yet he's not willing to share the sources in any form of collaboration, I guess. There are many offers of help (in various forms) in many threads in this forum (not from me personally but many others) and it seams to me that "pspad" just wants to keep full control over what is happening where in the code and why as a part of his self-esteem. I can understand that kind of approach and I totally respect that too.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are multiple reasons for this - only Jan/pspad could tell us exactly why. Among the most common reasons you find: * is already licensed proprietary (either complete or in parts) - this often can be changed (even M$ did this for some of their software) * needs external proprietary libraries to build (this can be difficult, depending on how much it is; but it's often still useful to release owned parts under GPL and step by step separating the code that needs external libraries if not already done - with the option to exchange them "some day") * thinking of ones source as "bad ones and/or not good documented" - this can be overcome and others can help * fear that one will have even less time to code as more questions will be asked - while this is true for the first weeks/months others will come in and answer the questions, both in the source aspect and the bug/feature request/support aspect * want to be in control what parts are in - this should never be a show stopper as Jan/pspad will ever be in control what is integrated in the "official" source tree / releases - he doesn't have to give anyone the option to change "his" code (only a copy of it) and he even doesn't have to integrate anything people suggest him to change Wirek: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He did a lot of great work already.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, he did indeed! -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?6,66774,66915> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
