You have in your post a lot of abbreviations. Do you mean with "PoC" "Proof of Concept" or "Percentage of Completion"? Both makes no sense in your context.To be clear, this is a question, not a posting of a PoC.
With "MIA" you mean "Missing in Action", right?Quoted
So, I've been reading the Manuel is MIA
Yes. And in 1.5 months Jabaco 1.5.2 celebrates its 5th birthday.Quoted
and jabaco has been "dead" for quite some time. We haven't seen a new version since 2009 according to the Download page.
There existing some tools, which showing the GUI of Jabaco-Forms, compiling old Jabaco form programs and so on:Quoted
While the framework is ofcourse OpenSource and it has been easy for us that know java to go ahead an extend some functions, I'm curious if anyone has thought about R-Eing Jabaco in terms of trying to fork it in hopes of extending and expanding where Manuel left off. (Hopefully that will bring him back into development too).
And it isn't legal. Manuel still wants to improve Jabaco and wants to sell licenses of newer Jabaco versions. He have still plans with Jabaco. And he still pays for the Jabaco.org domain, the server on which it is running, including this forum and so on. And on February he have had updated the forum-software:Quoted
Jabaco IDE can be "decompiled" using a common VB6 decompiler, but of course those aren't 100% and there's more to Jabaco then just that executable.
I think, that is the reason, why Jabaco needs a new orientation. To load VB6 projects and to be 100% VB6 compatible is more and more unimportant, because with the time, there are lesser and lesser people, who still developing VB6. The most are moved to VB.net and C#.Quoted
Much has changed since 2009: Windows 7, Windows 8, OSX Lion, Maverick, Android has taken off, etc.
If you have the time for it, then start yourself a rewrite of Jabaco.Quoted
I think it'd be atleast cool of an experience to get under the hood and create a community/fan-made fork of Jabaco.
As I sayd, the problem is the lack of time.Quoted
Or of course, Manuel, you could please come back and get this ball rerolling again :-P
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Time went by much too fastQuoted
Yes. And in 1.5 months Jabaco 1.5.2 celebrates its 5th birthday.
Could be right but remember that there are several people with VB6-skills. VB6-developers are able to learn Jabaco very fast.Quoted
To load VB6 projects and to be 100% VB6 compatible is more and more
unimportant, because with the time, there are lesser and lesser people,
who still developing VB6. The most are moved to VB.net and C#.
I think so too and I think it will be faster to write a new (simple, typical) application with Jabaco than with Java as soon as Jabaco is out of beta.Quoted
On the other side, it is more important to see Jabaco as an easy language for new developers.
More documentation is very welcome. Would be great to see more examples.Quoted
I think, the more time is gone, the more important is a good documentation for Jabaco.
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most of the people in the forum has gone tired of waiting for OUR beloved Jabaco to be out of Beta and see what are new features added or fixes on the IDE. Hope Manuel could give us a glimpse of his plans for jabaco. a specific date perhaps.(i hear every one reading this says "YEAH").Quoted
I think so too and I think it will be faster to write a new (simple, typical) application with Jabaco than with Java as soon as Jabaco is out of beta.