Hi All, Inline 0.50 is much like messiah, We wait and wait and hope keeps us waiting still he doesn't come. and it comes, we might not recognize it.
You write yourself things like : "You'll never believe it, but I actually just put a release on the web site". Well I didn't have time to check yet so I'll live on faith and believe you. I grew away from Inline partly because of this waiting. I believe things should go a bit faster. I also thinks it is your 'attitude' if things go slow and here is why: - Inline (the core) is very much your baby and I don't get any feeling you (actively) want to let other baby sit it. - You have no schedule - You have no controlled way to canalize user input (mail is not controlled) - You are not bossy enough to making other do work for Inine Now you'd like to run XP style? OK. I am lucky enough to work at a company were we did develop insdustrial products using XP. - Customer contact - Short iteration - Group coding, design Those are, in my eyes, more important than tests. Let us help. Let us help. You should let the customer fix the priority list and the schedule. Let us get in the design and give us (me) some coding to do. I know you never said that you didn't want help but I am lazy and if you don't ask you won't get any. Now get me right, I am greatfull you wrote Inline, I Had much fun writting Inline::Flex and other and I am greatfull for all the work you invest in Inline and I hope you write a nice book too. But Inline is not a project (in it's actual state), it's _your_ project. I think it's too big for you (or for me in that matter) I also think some of us would like to have a saying in how it will evolve instead for reading the description of how you want it to be and when it should come. It is always very difficult to leave ones baby to strangers. Please ML, do not answer me by saying 'the code is available make your own changes' that would be very silly. I want the project to be a group project and I think Brian would be good lead. I might be plain wrong or I might be the only one interested in seeing Inline development take another shape or there might not be any other one that wants to help and have a saying. Disclamers: I did not intend to flamme anyone here and specially not Brian. So please let's keep the ML as cool as it already is. If you can't help yourself missunderstanding me, answer me privately. Hopefully your flamme-back mails would have some content that can make me grow. otherwise they'll make /dev/null grow. Nadim.
