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[Balderstrom]

I mean, imagine if TC was open-source, or had more than a single Dev...

Feature Requests/Improvements might actually get done - there wouldn't even be a need for DoubleCommander.

Feature requests in TC are (for the most part) only implemented if Ghisler thinks he will (personally) use said feature. That's a perfectly fine attitude to have for a personal project. Not so much for what is considered a "professional tool."


Lets look at TC since version 6.5x (Augst 2008).
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TC 7.x (2008 - 2010) [3 years]
573 "Added:" lines (Not counting Unicode/UTF-8/Uniscribe)
151 "Added:" lines for Unicode/UTF-8/Uniscribe.

Uniscribe/Unicode rendering has been baked into Windows since 2000.
It took TC 8 years to get Unicode support, in 2008.
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TC 8.x (2011-2014 [April 2014])
308 "Added:" lines

Let's break it down by year.

TC 8.x (2014): 16 (+2 Uniscribe "fixes" that are called "added")
TC 8.x (2013): 163
TC 8.x (2012): 41
TC 8.x (2011): 86
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TC 5 to 6 was a major Update. TC 6 to 7 was a pretty major Update.
TC 7 to 8... a little more than half the number of "added" lines vs TC 6 to 7.

It's also been 9 months since the last TC update. In the TC 9 Thread, Ghisler states he has no idea what he would even add/change/do. Which would seem to indicate (??) that nothing has been done at all in almost a year.

I also don't recall any significant new feature in TC 8 (there must of been something), beyond getting a crippled x64 version (initially, no plugins, etc). TC 8 is heading into it's 5th year now: 2011-2015. Not counting the year that was spent porting TC to Lazarus (x64).

[Hacker]

Balderstrom,

I showed the wife the thread about TC 9... her response was something to the effect of, "I can't believe he just said he doesn't see any point in making his program 10% better. Why do those people (TC users) put up with his attitude??!"

I think you and/or your wife misunderstood something here. The thread is about releasing TC 9 and Christian is wondering if releasing an update with a benefit to 10% of the users warrants a 0.5 - 1.0 version jump. Perhaps it would be better called 8.60 or so.

Roman

[Balderstrom]

Right, but if 10 features were done... that were useful to 10% of users. And according to statistical theory, there should be overlap in those "10%", which should give us at least a benefit to 50% of users.

Hell if the class-names were one of those things (I don't see that happening, I've been asking for it since 2009-2010, along with others) that would benefit a LOT of users.

And TC 8.6 ? In the 5th year of TC 8? Really?? I think when that thread was started it was just a gentle prod, as the expectation would be that a significant update would be in the works already...

The shock to the OP there, and others was that there's no current plan at all for the next release of TC, and it's been nearly a year since the last "bug-fix" release. It looks like if Christian's been doing anything at all over the last year+ it's all been mobile: Android and Windows Phone.