RE: [ jEdit-users ] Future of jEdit and jSharpEdit

[Trussell D. N <Dav...@ir...>]

How 'bout:

	APRIL FOOL!

???

> I hear it's because Slava is in some kind of trouble with
> the Russian mob.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > The release date for JSharpEdit is 06/01/02.  jEdit is
> > also programmed to stop working on that date.
> 
> Is this some kind of sick joke?  I thought jEdit was open 
> source, why can't
> the jEdit community maintain and enhance jEdit?
> 
> Jim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jed...@li...
> > [mailto:jed...@li...]On Behalf Of RudMan
> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:53 PM
> > To: jed...@li...
> > Subject: [ jEdit-users ] Future of jEdit and jSharpEdit
> >
> >
> >
> >    Today I would like to announce the future of jEdit.  Due 
> to increasing
> > university demands, Slava is unable to continue to develop jEdit
> > and as of the
> > release of 4.0final, the development of jEdit will pass 
> over to me.   The
> > sourceforge mailing lists will be shut down and I can be
> > contacted on IRC as
> > RudMan.  4.0 will be the final version of jEdit written in 
> Java.  Future
> > development will be targeted towards Microsoft's J# which 
> will run on any
> > platform that supports the MS CLR. As a consequence of that I
> > will rename jEdit
> > to JSharpEdit.    All of the current plugin's functionality will
> > be rolled into
> > jSharpEdit as well as an email client, a news reader and even a
> > small adventure
> > game!  The release date for JSharpEdit is 06/01/02.  jEdit is
> > also programmed
> > to stop working on that date.
> >
> > RudMan
> > <April 1,2002>
>