Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit ?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:29:58AM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

> > BTW, I expect to release a 4.0.3 version over the week-end with
> 
> Do you also plan to release some day bbgen 3.6 (bbgen 3.5 with the 5
> patches available here : http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/bbgen/) ?

This brings up a slighty bigger issue.

Since Hobbit grew out of the Big Brother environment, it is still
possible to configure Hobbit for use with BB - it is in essence a
"bbgen 4.0".

I would like to drop that, since it does make things more difficult
for future developments, and I honestly haven't done any testing
against BB for some months now. Right now the development focus for
Hobbit is the "behind-the-scenes" server functions, but should the
focus at some point go towards new features in the user-interface part
of Hobbit, it would be difficult to stay backwards compatible with Big
Brother in the sense that you can run e.g. the Hobbit version of bbgen
on top of Big Brother.

So what do you say - can I drop the BB support and focus entirely on
a pure Hobbit environment?

It's still something I decide, but I would appreciate your input. If I
do decide to drop BB support in Hobbit, I will wrap it up with a bbgen
3.6 release to close that down nicely.


Regards,
Henrik