> I find the overall move to TW 5 a bit disheartening. Not all of us are > whipper-snappers that can pick up new technologies at the drop of a > hat. I was hoping for a knowledge platform that would stay stable for > a half decade or so at a time. I just about have everything working as > a productivity tool, rather than a nerd-toy. Once TW 5 is the rule of > the land, plugin developers will lose interest in the old TW, and many > will break (plugins that is, not developers) as FF and IE mutate. Its > likely that many of the plugins I'm using won't have equivalents on TW > 5, or at least not for a year or two.
I understand your concerns, and I think there's a few mitigations: - It's going to take many months for TiddlyWiki5 to get to the point where it's a viable replacement for bare-bones classic TiddlyWiki - There's a huge investment (from me, from Osmosoft, from everyone in the community) in "classic" TiddlyWiki, and content in that format, and it's not going to go away - I hope you'll have seen that my approach to backwards compatibility has always been pretty aggressive. I've consistently championed consistency and backwards compatibility over whizz-bang new features because I believe that having a stable platform is the best basis for a vibrant ecosystem to build on top of it In other words, I think that the basic economics of the situation are going to ensure that both classic TiddlyWiki and TiddlyWiki5 are going to coexist for many years. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
