Re: {bb} bbgen (late in the game)

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <200509020926.33996.misty@borkholder.com> Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@borkholder.com> writes:

>I am upgrading from bb 1.9e to 1.9h and am doing a fresh install for 
>clean-ness ake.  I went to download the latest bbgen, and it seems to have 
>split off into a separate project (Hobbit).  Does this mean that bbgen will 
>no longer be developed?  Is there a way to use this Hobbit as an add-on to 
>Big Brother, the way that bbgen was?  Is anyone filling this void?  Is bbgen 
>considered stable enough that I can just use the last released version of it 
>from now to eternity?

Seems you missed this message:
http://support.bb4.com/archive/200506/msg00019.html

You can use bbgen for as long as you like - it's very stable, as evidenced
by the fact that version 3.6 - the last release of bbgen - only contains
a few bug-fixes. Should the worst thing happen, you do have the source-code
for bbgen and thus the possibility of fixing bugs yourself.

But bbgen is no longer being developed. Hobbit has taken over from bbgen
but cannot be used as an add-on to Big Brother - I wouldn't be able to
enhance and evolve Hobbit the way I do if I had to maintain full compatibility 
with BB. Hobbit is a full replacement for BB, and the two have just gone
their separate ways.


Regards,
Henrik

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