[hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit?

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>> mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au 04/21/05 8:22 AM >>>
> Well, I don't see any problem with this, but I would like to 
> see bbclient compatibility remain. I don't think hobbit yet 
> has the right amount of client tests to be able to ignore 
> what BB has. ie, even just the standard BB client works 
> better than the current hobbit version (not that I've tried 
> it, since you keep telling us it doesn't work)... but add to 
> that all the stuff on www.deadcat.net, and, well... you 
> know, thats a lot to try and replicate...

Losing deadcat stuff would be a bad thing.  I guess that's part 
of breaking away.  Hobbit will just need to spring something 
up like deadbunny or some other typical pet for a Hobbit.

> To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is 
> actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads 
> of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF 
> license users who are using/maintaining old BB 
> installations.... We haven't seen any BTF releases, 
> and I've not seen anything anywhere to indicate that 
> there have been any commercial updates/changes either.

There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks 
like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source 
out. I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, inviting me 
to try the new BBPe 3.1.  Interestingly enough, there 
is a pdf on their site that goes through the differences 
between the Pe and BTF versions, and there's really only 
one - integration with SpotLight and FogLight.

Apparently the QA cycle for the new features is much 
longer than when it used to be purely BTF.

Paul