Epistula, any news ?

@DJBase

I know that

I'm the italian translator and betatester, everyday I follow the mailing list.

Aniway, please don't kill it, is an open source project, if you have lost interest, maybe we can find other developers that can continue to develop this program

@samo79

Its OpenSource, everyone could help to improve Jabberwocky but it seems nobody can or will do so.

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@Slash

Hi, just curious how things are going with Epistula.
From what little time I've been able to spend with the
demo, it has looked impressive.

Your efforts on file transfers sound great! Do you
think it will work with AIM too?

Thanks!

PJS

@pjs

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I've just released the re-written version as a beta for registered users. This version will hopefully be more stable and provide more functionality than the previous.

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Yes, the system has been designed to be used from any of the plugins so if the AIM plugin eventually gains file transfer support then yes, it should work with AIM too.

Daniel

@LiveForIt

more OS4 users than classic users? yeah! of course. Don't make me laugh please.

And you think they'll prefer to waste 800€ on second hand amigaOnes instead of continue running all the amiga software they want?

They can run most of amiga software and OS4/MOS only apps are usually video players and programs that run much better on other cheaper platforms (e.g. a 30€ dvd player)

Releasing OS4/MOS only apps being able to release OS3 versions is like shooting at your own feet.

Take as an example AmiNetRadio. It's a 68k app with PPC modules. That's the right way to go.

Also remember that Amithlon/UAE are faster running 68k apps than real amigas.

If you release a 68k app it will run on classic amigas, emulators, OS4 and MorphOS. If you release it just for a single platform it will be used just by a small minority.

@Crumb

Oh God! Stop this OS3.x apps no sense.

@ikir

Precisely!

Believe me, there are a lot of advantages to coding an application with the OS4 API as opposed to the 3.x API as there have been many improvements to a number of functions which make it nicer, easier and safer to programme for.

Epistula is now so tied to the OS4 API it would take quite a major rewrite to adapt it to OS3.x and therefore it won't happen, regardless of how many people will use it or not because I really don't care how many people like it, pay for it or despise it; at the end of the day it's written by me, for me and as a nice side effect of that, you lot just get to play along if you so choose

Now stop filling threads associated with my software with your fruitless arguments

@Slash

Will be even harder to support AmigaOS3.x when AmigaOS4.x gets UTF-8 support and when very new app start using that.

@all

Er they finally released version 1.7 a month or so ago. And the mailing list is still busy with chatter from the developers, so I wouldn't say its dead at all.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=231

Is anyone continuing on Epistula since its LPGL or how its spelled :)

@Kicko

Good question

@Kicko

Well, I thought that only plugins are released as LGPL. The rest of the application stays closed as before. So, you'd rather ask is anybody working on plugins to Epistula and not Epistula itself :)