why Ddbg is not updated anymore...

[Matthias Pleh]

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