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SteveL

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greebo is very actively working on a port of DR to wxWidgets because DR is likely to run into problems in future with the current gtk toolkit due to poor Windows support. That work is taking precedence right now.

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I guess it's a features full complete project now? :)

 

No, it's an open source project staffed by volunteers who contribute their free time as and when they choose to. If you have a problem with the development pace you are welcome to try to recruit additional developers to fix your particular issues and submit patches. Nobody owes anybody anything.

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Sotha

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How about paying existing devs? Would that work?

 

Probably not. If you pay existing devs, the old devs will be annoyed. Opensource/free projects mix poorly with hard currency. This has been discussed here one million times now. ;)

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motorsep

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Probably not. If you pay existing devs, the old devs will be annoyed. Opensource/free projects mix poorly with hard currency. This has been discussed here one million times now. ;)

 

That's odd. It works for many FOSS projects.

 

Anyhow, point taken.

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HMart

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Probably not. If you pay existing devs, the old devs will be annoyed. Opensource/free projects mix poorly with hard currency. This has been discussed here one million times now. ;)

 

Is sad but true, is the problem with some Open Source projects and because of that they stay stagnate for years, i just hope is not the case with DarkRadiant, i love it.

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Nonsense. Developers don't contribute to open source projects for the hell of it. They stand to gain something. Maybe they've tried mapping and don't like the tools. Maybe they want to play more new missions and see a better toolset as a means to an end. Maybe they're simply perfecting their craft or find it entertaining.

 

If someone showed up tomorrow with the code to completely remedy DR's shifting planes problem, we'd all celebrate. If this same person had paid to have that code produced, why would it be a problem? We aren't all coders. If money can produce bug fixes and improvements it would be foolish to turn down these contributions.

 

It's only a matter of time before such a scenario plays out. For example ...

 

https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/1296875-darkradiant

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