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Why did it take 5 years?
Submitted by 6tr6tr on Monday, 11 January, 2010 - 16:36
I love jEdit and recommend it to everyone but over the last 5 years a LOT of people left jEdit and have been wary of using it because there was so much time between releases. They felt like it wouldn't be supported and they'd have to switch late in the game to another platform/ide. So just wondering...why did it take 5 years to get to 4.3?
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There are quite a few reasons
by elberry on Tue, 12/01/2010 - 01:55
There are quite a few reasons actually, but hopefully we'll have more on a more frequent basis now.
 
OK, that's good to know. But
by 6tr6tr on Wed, 13/01/2010 - 17:01
OK, that's good to know. But can you elaborate a bit on some of the reasons? I really am curious.
 
capacity
by Robert Schwenn on Sun, 17/01/2010 - 13:59
In short: There are not very much developers, though it seems to be more and more the last time. It needs much work to develop a program and on the other hand branch and maintain a stable version at the same time. For the latter there hadn't been enough development capacity the last years. But it really seems to change now.
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