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> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc. (http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-
by tvon 15y ago
> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc.
(http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/014651.html http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/01465...)
Maybe something to do with the IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS REQUEST TO NOT RE-PUBLISH THE ALPHA INFORMATION that people can't seem to comprehend.
- johanjessen 15y agoI was thinking the same thing. It's too good to be true, so people are too eager to share it, despite Alpha issues. Can't wait to try it myself though...
- acidblue 15y agoYeah, no doubt. I saw that and thought it was lame for people to post the announcement. WTF? And I'm the one with -20 karma. I have no idea how. WTF is karma anyway?
- starnix17 15y agoFor what's it worth, this was posted on a publicly accessible TextMate mailing list. Not sure why he would think it wouldn't leak out.
- biot 15y agoCommon courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...
- nestlequ1k 15y agoCommon courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.
- slig 15y agoHow 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.
- nestlequ1k 15y agoYup, we owe him nothing as well.
- sigzero 15y agoThat's why is it called "common" courtesy.
- hyperbovine 15y agoI know, right! My TextMate completely stopped working when it was just 3 years old. Don't make 'em like they used to.
- absconditus 15y agoThe "he did it too" defense?
- scrod 15y agoSorry, 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".
- ketralnis 15y agoIt'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.
- dextorious 15y agoIf anything, the request seems more ironic that actual... As if there was a chance in hell it wouldn't get republished...
- EGreg 15y agoI am starting to understand why Apple has provisioning of devices -- and now Macs -- for pre-release software.
- ryannielsen 15y agoAt least as of the Lion developer previews, Macs are not in any way provisioned.