The plans aren’t completely clear yet, but the most likely option is a dual license scheme where a commercial license is available for a small fee.

For me that seems to be the fairest option, commercial users give back to the community by helping the fund development, while open source developers (who are already giving back by sharing their work) can use Monster freely with the GPL.

Some quick fishing around points to wikipedia as a great place to get started. It looks like there’s a fist-full of RFC’s that outlay what WebDav is for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV

Are you planning on using both Phobos and Tango from within the same project? I hadn’t really thought of that yet, but now I realize it could be useful for library/binding developers that have to test code with a lot of version() statements.

I agree it’s always nice to have a basic editor and if that’s all you need, well, all the more power to ya!

Let’s say some time within the next couple of weeks.

However, I usually feel somewhat encumbered by the fact that you are restricted to do everything from the inside of a project.

What if I have a larger project with many sub-projects, what if I want to open different files that do not actually belong to my project but are part of my daily working struggle. Usually this boils down to having other (lighter) editors open separately and many other such things.

I simply find it much more comfortable to use an unobtrusive editor, that doesn’t create hidden (.something) directories holding project information that mysteriously cause my project configuration to break when taking my work with me from work to home or viceversa. And when compiling I want to be able to use DSSS properly, without the need to create unintuitive shortcuts that trigger it. Also I think it is much better to have DSSS handle linking of libraries with my executable and so on…

So even though Eclipse brings so many features into the pot, editors like jEdit and Geany are still my favorites (if the Java VM would support bit-mapped fonts jEdit would simply be the undeniable king in my view).

Please note that I really don’t want this to sound like ranting; I just like the freedom of a source code editor compared with a full blown IDE.

The most important thing in the end is to have alternatives for everybody, and Descent is certainly on the right path. Rock on!

However, I usually feel somewhat encumbered by the fact that you are restricted to do everything from the inside of a project.

What if I have a larger project with many sub-projects, what if I want to open different files that do not actually belong to my project but are part of my daily working struggle. Usually this boils down to having other (lighter) editors open separately and many other such things.

I simply find it much more comfortable to use an unobtrusive editor, that doesn’t create hidden (.something) directories holding project information that mysteriously cause my project configuration to break when taking my work with me from work to home or viceversa. And when compiling I want to be able to use DSSS properly, without the need to create unintuitive shortcuts that trigger it. Also I think it is much better to have DSSS handle linking of libraries with my executable and so on…

So even though Eclipse brings so many features into the pot, editors like jEdit and Geany are still my favorites (if the Java VM would support bit-mapped fonts jEdit would simply be the undeniable king in my view).

Please note that I really don’t want this to sound like ranting; I just like the freedom of a source code editor compared with a full blown IDE.