Re: Future plans for Minimum Profit

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:30:30AM +0200, Enno Boland wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've read your "Future plans for Minimum Profit" message in the mailing  
> list. When do you think you can publish the new editor (and the librarys)?  
> In my opinion mp is a great editor. I like the very simple and easy to use  
> UI. The textmarking is just great!
> The reason why I'm not using it is that I'm just to lame to use an editor  
> without a undo function*lmao*
> 
> Enno Boland

Hi! I'm afraid it's been more than a year ago (!) since I said something
about the 5.x version, and maybe it's time to write some words about it.

Both MPDM (the supporting library) and MPSL (the programming language) are
100% finished. Documentation is still sparse, which I think it's a
problem, at least for MPSL; there is no meaning in writing a fully
scriptable program if that scripting language is not fully and
comprehensively documented. Anyway, it's where I'm working just now.

Finally, there will be three 'flavours', as in 3.x: Curses, Windows and
GTK2 (GTK 1.x is finally abandoned). The engine has been deeply tested and
debugged; in fact, I've been using it as my main working editor for almost
6 months.

Why didn't I released it for public review? Because all flavours lack an
important part of the UI interface: any editor function that asks the user
for something (confirmations, search text, save as, etc.) isn't finished,
so it's not really usable for anyone not being me. The reason for this
important part not being finished is because I still have not clear how to
implement some things. As this step is delaying the 5.x release too much,
I've reciently thinking about just porting the 3.x interface and do the
interface revision for future versions.

What is working now: Undo, UTF-8 support, scripting, much better
wordwrapping, all usual editor functionality.

What is not: UI questions, the menu, crappy syntax highlight,
spellchecking, password protected texts.

-- 
Angel Ortega
http://www.triptico.com



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