Am Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:52:46 -0400 schrieb Christopher Williams: Hello Chris,
i'm reading this list to see whats going on with RDT development. i'm no developer, so i hope my thoughts are welcome though. i can understand the motives to do a commercial fork. it's often hard and annoying to do such hard work as you guys do it for RDT. I really love your work, and use it quite often in RadRails for my private Rails Test. Just learning ruby and rails. here are my thoughts: >... Given the recent influx of new competitors (Netbeans, DLTK, IntelliJ) ... i think as long there are free alternatives, most people wont pay for RDT/RadRails. especially NetBeans is the biggest competitor with great ideas. >... So, I've decided to pursue a commercial fork of RDT and RadRails. ... is the idea to use the commercial RDT/RadRails as full time job, or just like at the moment with the advantage of earning some money? i don't think there is a big market for a commercial RDT/RadRails version. Perhaps it's a better idea to let the features togehter in the versions. but add the need of registration(buying) for organisations and commercial use and let the free version available for private use or non comercial user. it's a shame that great projects like yours aren't appreciated as they deserve. i think thats a major problem with free/os software. everybody likes and uses it. but that's not paying the delopers bills. but i believe in open source though. whats about linking DLTK and RDT together? possible or never ever? i think IBM should support RDT and RadRails. Push it to the next level as competitor to NetBeans. Ever thought about requesting collaboration with IBM? Would be a nice advertise for there Eclipse platform i think. if there will be a commercial fork. i wish you all the best. and hopefully it will be successfull. but for me as private person and spare time rails developer it's no alternative. :( whats about the 0.9 RDT version? will this version be available with all the new shiny, long waited features for free. or is it still scheduled for a commercial release? regards Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rubyeclipse-development mailing list Rubyeclipse-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rubyeclipse-development
