why Ddbg is not updated anymore...
I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html) The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and his company Jawset Visual Computing TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG fluid dynamics available in standard software Well and recently his product got used in the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (http://chooseyoursurrogate.com/). All in all I whish him the best for the future and that he will never forget D when developing next cutting edge software. The downside is that Ddbg finally needs a new developer for the future to get updated.
Re: why Ddbg is not updated anymore...
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:43:32 +0100, Stephan wrote: I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html) The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and his company Jawset Visual Computing Best wishes. :=)
Re: why Ddbg is not updated anymore...
Matthias Pleh Wrote: Stephan schrieb: I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html) The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and his company Jawset Visual Computing TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG fluid dynamics available in standard software Well and recently his product got used in the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (http://chooseyoursurrogate.com/). All in all I whish him the best for the future and that he will never forget D when developing next cutting edge software. The downside is that Ddbg finally needs a new developer for the future to get updated. In the second part of the mentioned restrictions in the license.txt is written: * You may only redistribute the software unmodified, in the form and prepackaging it is available from the official website. It's seems as if redistributing of a changed version is not allowed. (But perhaps my english understanding is not good enought, I'm not an english native speaker :) So in this case, we need to write a debugger from scratch. greets matthias I am sure if one has a strong intent to take over ddbg development, Jascha would not mind changing the license for this project, since he is not interested in it himself.
Re: why Ddbg is not updated anymore...
On 01/19/2010 09:32 PM, Matthias Pleh wrote: Stephan schrieb: I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html) The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and his company Jawset Visual Computing TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG fluid dynamics available in standard software Well and recently his product got used in the new Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (http://chooseyoursurrogate.com/). All in all I whish him the best for the future and that he will never forget D when developing next cutting edge software. The downside is that Ddbg finally needs a new developer for the future to get updated. In the second part of the mentioned restrictions in the license.txt is written: * You may only redistribute the software unmodified, in the form and prepackaging it is available from the official website. It's seems as if redistributing of a changed version is not allowed. (But perhaps my english understanding is not good enought, I'm not an english native speaker :) So in this case, we need to write a debugger from scratch. greets matthias That's unfortunate, Jascha Wetzel has done some incredible things (not only ddbg). His code is really nice too, if ever someone would want to pick this up maybe he can be convinced to change the license.
