Is it wrong of me to be a little miffed that I paid $50, admittedly a long time ago, for Textmate?
Did Textmate come with a promise that your money would help fund the development of Textmate2?
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Textmate2 Goes Open Source
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Re: Textmate2 Goes Open Source
#42Awesome! Can someone comment on how probable it would be to port it to linux (and windows)?
Well it's all in Obj-C, so either a non-OS X Obj-C compilation tool or rewrite it out all out of Obj-C. Doable, but I don't think many people will be queuing up for the task.
From casually looking through the src tree, core looks to be mostly c++, with obj-c++ glue.
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You don't think it has anything to do with Sandboxing requirements in the App Store and Mountain Lion having an option not to allow non-App Store applications? I'm seriously asking, not trying to start a flame war here.
The original TextMate isn't on the App Store and I'd have to think the number of people who go into the Security settings and disallow running of non-App Store signed binaries is vanishingly small.
It might make sense if you were setting the computer up for a non-technical user that might install trojans. It also might be the default in the future.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't think it has anything to do with Sandboxing requirements in the App Store and Mountain Lion having an option not to allow non-App Store applications? I'm seriously asking, not trying to start a flame war here.
The original TextMate isn't on the App Store and I'd have to think the number of people who go into the Security settings and disallow running of non-App Store signed binaries is vanishingly small.
I'm pretty sure if you're using Textmate you can figure things like that out.
Re: Textmate2 Goes Open Source
#46Is it wrong of me to be a little miffed that I paid $50, admittedly a long time ago, for Textmate?
Not wrong may be but definitely not logical. Its like saying "I am miffed because I paid $500 for 32 MB of RAM 10 years ago while I can now pay $100 for 2 GB of RAM". Different times, different technology.
Re: Textmate2 Goes Open Source
#47I am not sure how to read the statement by Allan Odgaard. It does not include any hint on the future of Textmate: Has Textmate become open source abandonware or does Allan Odgaard intend to lead the future development of Textmate as an open source? The latter would of course be great, the former rather sad from a user perspective since most former closed source apps do not survive for long after a switch to open sour…
It does, actually. He mentions asking about pull requests and such, so it's clear he (or they, as it's all pluralized) intend(s) on maintaining the repository.
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#48Is it wrong of me to be a little miffed that I paid $50, admittedly a long time ago, for Textmate?
Yes. Did you use it for your job?
How many hours did you use it?
Well worth the $50
Re: Textmate2 Goes Open Source
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did Textmate come with a promise that your money would help fund the development of Textmate2?
Textmate 1 came with a promise that you would get a free upgrade to Textmate 2. http://wiki.macromates.com/FAQ/TextMate2 Here the developer talks about regretting the free upgrade: http://old.nabble.com/TM2-to28405435.html#a28707277
Some of us had owned textmate for several years before that "promise"
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's all in Obj-C, so either a non-OS X Obj-C compilation tool or rewrite it out all out of Obj-C. Doable, but I don't think many people will be queuing up for the task.
Erm, Objective-C probably isn't the problem, even NeXt used gcc for that (not sure how much of the current feature bloat isn't in copyrighted libraries). But GNUStep isn't exactly up to par with Cocoa, never mind not exactly the default desktop environment. Porting the whole editor from Obj-C++/Cocoa to C++/KDE or C/Gtk would be a pretty huge task, where you'd better off starting from scratch anyway (as with a lot of…
Cocotron[1] attempts to be up to part with Cocoa though. I'm not sure if it would cover everything needed by TM, but it would be a pretty decent start.