Re: RPGBeans goes Open Source! -- RPGNEXT

Good news! Thank you Joel.

Kyle

On 5/11/05, Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy Nexters!
> 
> I know you all haven't heard from me in a while. To put it mildly, I've
> been a little busy.
> 
> There have been numerous reports of a bug in RPGBeans since it was in
> Beta, namely that the Create Prototype portion would cr*p out.  This has
> really been a thorn in my side: I have personally never seen it and I
> have never been able to recreate it on any of the four systems here in
> house.  This is especially frustrating, because even if you had no
> interest in Encapsulation, the "Create Prototypes" tool could be
> extremely beneficial.
> 
> Recently, on some of the mailing lists, people have been talking about
> Open Source again.  As a Linux fan, I'm well acquanited with Open
> Source, and some of my programmers have contributed to many open source
> projects including the Linux Kernel.  In fact, if you are Blog-aware, we
> have a new open source Blog software project in Beta that is Search
> Engine Optimized.  Check it out at http://www.seonucleus.com.  But I
> digress...
> 
> It sounds like I'm ramlbing, but hang in there... I have made one last
> effort to correct the previously mentioned bug in RPGBeans, but I have
> no idea if it will work or not.  Truthfully, I don't think it will and
> frankly I have zero time to dedicate to it, especially since it works
> great for me.  So, taking all these things into account, I have decided
> to make RPGBeans an Open Source project.  If you download the latest
> version from the website at http://www.rpgbeans.com/downloads/ you will
> find all the source included in RPGBEANLIB/QSOURCE.  Maybe someone out
> there can fix this little bug.
> 
> So here's the deal: feel free to work on it.  If you make a correction,
> change or enhancement, submit it to me and if I approve it I'll add it
> to the current version and make it available to everyone else.  If there
> is enough interest, I will create a Forum on the website and look into
> some kind of CVS system.  The license hasn't changed: you can't sell the
> tool, but you can use it and modify it to your hearts content, even for
> commercial purposes.
> 
> Joel Cochran
> http://www.rpgnext.com
> http://www.rpgbeans.com
> 
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