Re: Curious answer...

Well, I thought I'd give a straight answer with as little room for 
misunderstandings as possible.

Regarding the why we dumped it: in the first place, it was that it is one 
hell of an effort to build a stable cross-platform toolkit and then test it 
thoroughly on multiple platforms. One part of this equation was that we 
didn't want to be guinea pigs with Mono on Linux, trying to figure out if 
we screwed up in our code or if it was Mono's fault (always look at the 
time when we worked actively on it, don't compare it to NOW).

After spending some time on #WT, we realized that it would postpone our 1.0 
release by years not months. So we decided to shelf it. And as time went 
by, that shelfing became permanent.

It already is tough enough to sort out bugs reported from users of 
different Windows versions, locales, security setups, etc. Adding more 
platforms to this equation is like walking into quicksand on purpose. 
Especially when you have limited resources.

And yes, there have been some internal discussions too that added to this 
decision, but were not deciding points.

#develop will remain Windows-only, the MonoDevelop fork will work for Mono.

Chris

At 09:54 PM 5/10/2004, Richard Norman wrote:
>This was a curious answer, there may have been some things behind the 
>scenes that I might have missed, but why this particular answer? Is it 
>just a matter of time and effort, or is it more of the fact to put quality 
>into the pieces you have?
>
>Just curious cause I thought that #WT was a pretty good idea. I myself 
>would not know where to begin or how to test, but I was intrigued by your 
>answer to the question in this manner.
>
>Richard Norman
>Software Developer
><http://www.jazzynupe.net/blog/>http://www.jazzynupe.net/blog/
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:06:05 +0200
>To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
>From: Christoph Wille 
><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Sd-mono-port] Is SharpWT dead?
>
>At 09:25 PM 5/5/2004, you wrote:
> >I haven't followed progress in quite a while, but it looks as if there
> >hasn't been any anyways? Can someone give the list an update?
>
>The #develop team is no longer working on #WT, which it looks like means
>that no one else is working on it any longer.
>
>Also, the #develop team will very likely never again attempt to make
>#develop cross-platform. Our plans are for a #develop 1.0 release on .NET
>1.1 (with a debugger coming later), and switching to .NET 2.0 once Beta 1
>is available this summer.
>
>Chris
>Senior Project Wrangler, #develop