[Gtkradiant] Further GtkRadiant development?

[Timothee Besset]

ailmanki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just to mention it, there is a fork of the 1.5 
> http://dev.alientrap.org/wiki/netradiant alive.
>
> Hmmm so 1.6 is they way to go, actually quite a sad thing, 3 different 
> versions which have different abilities.
> Maybe thats the reason, that since 1.3 none has made a new plugin..
>
> thanks
> ailmanki
>

Yeah there is NetRadiant too. It's a bit unfortunate that they went 
their own way and never wanted to play ball with us, but that's 
perfectly within the rules of open source software.

TTimo

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Timothee Besset <ttimo at idsoftware.com 
> <mailto:ttimo at idsoftware.com>> wrote:
>
>     Markus,
>
>     1.6 was started off of 1.4, which is the latest version I had
>     worked on.
>      William Joseph did extensive changes to the 1.5 code for his own
>     projects but since it was a mostly unknown codebase for us and we
>     had an
>     immediate need for the QUAKE LIVE project we decided we'd rather build
>     on top of 1.4
>
>     I would recommend continuing to work off of trunk / 1.6 .. there isn't
>     any development to speak of from us at this time (the editor has
>     all the
>     features we really needed for QUAKE LIVE), but it's still the release
>     we're most likely to pay attention to.
>
>     TTimo
>
>     Markus Fischer wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I've created a clone of GtkRadiant on github [1] and added a few
>     things,
>     > fixed crashes I found, etc. I'm tracking my changes in the NEWS
>     [2] file.
>     >
>     > My initial motivation was to move my map development over to 1.6
>     as I
>     > found it has some features I'm missing in 1.5 . I discovered
>     that the
>     > two version differ quite and started to miss things in 1.6 I had
>     in 1.5 .
>     >
>     > Due trunk/ having the latest developer changes, instead of going
>     back to
>     > 1.5 I started working on in-cooperating the missing things into
>     trunk, I
>     > also find that the trunk source is a bit nicer organized.
>     >
>     > However I soon discovered how *much* they're different and it
>     boils down
>     > to that the number of things I'm missing increases and that I also
>     > experience incompatibility problems when continuing work on maps I
>     > created with 1.5, they would load in 1.6 but as soon as I save them,
>     > some parts, notable related to func_groups, simply get removed.
>     >
>     > As I currently stand I don't know which direction to head,
>     whether to
>     > continue improving trunk or going a step back and evaluate using
>     1.5 to
>     > build on further work.
>     >
>     > If there's anyone having interest in development and has time
>     for it or
>     > some view on the things I said, please speak up :-)
>     >
>     > regards,
>     > - Markus
>     >
>     > [1] http://github.com/mfn/GtkRadiant
>     > [2] http://github.com/mfn/GtkRadiant/blob/mfn/NEWS
>     >
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