why Ddbg is not updated anymore...

[Eldar Insafutdinov]

Matthias Pleh Wrote:

> Stephan schrieb:
> > I dunno if anyone knew this before but i wanted to give my kudos to a 
> > guy that did a lot for the D community by developing the still best 
> > debugger for the D Programming Language Ddbg 
> > (http://ddbg.mainia.de/releases.html)
> > 
> > The question often came up why it is not updated anymore. Well the 
> > reason for this is that Jascha Wetzel the developer of Ddbg earns the 
> > big bucks now with his product Turbolence 4D (http://jawset.com/) and 
> > his company "Jawset Visual Computing"
> > 
> > "TURBULENCE.4D makes the most realistic and efficient methods in CG 
> > fluid dynamics available in standard software"
> > 
> > Well and recently his product got used in the new Bruce Willis movie 
> > "Surrogates" (http://chooseyoursurrogate.com/).
> > 
> > All in all I whish him the best for the future and that he will never 
> > forget D when developing next cutting edge software.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The downside is that Ddbg finally needs a new developer for the future 
> > to get updated.
> 
> 
> In the second part of the mentioned restrictions in the license.txt is 
> written:
> * You may only redistribute the software unmodified, in the form and
>    prepackaging it is available from the official website.
> 
> It's seems as if redistributing of a changed version is not allowed.
> (But perhaps my english understanding is not good enought, I'm not an 
> english native speaker :)
> So in this case, we need to write a debugger from scratch.
> 
> greets
> matthias

I am sure if one has a strong intent to take over ddbg development, Jascha would not mind changing the license for this project, since he is not interested in it himself.