Common courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...
Re:TextMate 2
by nestlequ1k on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:47PM
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Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.
How is the author taking his time to release a new version neglect?
People that were not happy with the wait migrated to other editors.
He owns us nothing.
Re:TextMate 2
by nestlequ1k on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:31PM
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Yup, we owe him nothing as well.
That's why is it called "common" courtesy.
Re:TextMate 2
by hyperbovine on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:36PM
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I know, right! My TextMate completely stopped working when it was just 3 years old. Don't make 'em like they used to.
Re:TextMate 2
by absconditus on Monday December 12, 2011 @08:17PM
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The "he did it too" defense?
Sorry, but "neglect" is a pretty obnoxious accusation you're leveling against Alan. He's dutifully maintained Textmate 1.5.x over those years and has released many many updates. That these releases have not also served to entertain you is simply not a legitimate complaint, let alone an excuse to suspend "common courtesy".
It's not that it's not supposed to leak like some big secret. It's that it makes you look bad when you get it into the general public's hands rather than a bunch of developers that know that it's of alpha quality and it goes around crashing all of the time, corrupting your data, etc. Things you'd expect alphas to do.
Not sure why he would think it wouldn't leak out.