Re: Mammoth in Core?

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 21:55 +0100, Markus Wanner wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > So, that's what I'd recommend the Mammoth developers to do as well:
> > cherry-picking, sort of. Maybe that fulfills one or the other item on
> > our wish-list (in one way or another)...
> >
>
> I doubt we are going to spend the time to do that. Mammoth is BSD and
> open source. If people want to jump in and help, that would be
> interesting, but on our own... it isn't on our priority list.
>
> Our priority list with mammoth is simple.
>
> Finish 1.9
>
> Fix things we know the community as hackers (not feature set) will grump
> about.
>
> Make it work on 8.4 ad 8.5
>
> But again, as Tom says... none of this is relevant until 8.5 is released
> at which point, we can talk about all of this again. Hopefully 1.9 will
> be done by then.

I wanted to comment on this, however late I am.

I think the writing is on the wall and it is now questionable if there
is much community value to continue development of Mammoth Replicator,
though we might want to pull some ideas from the code at some point.
Company-sponsored development is a valuable resource for this community
and I would love to see new things worked on.

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