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Re: FYI: Bindings deprecated

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Subject: Re: FYI: Bindings deprecated
From: Chris Little <cslittle at mac dot com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:37:02 -0400
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Thread-topic: FYI: Bindings deprecated
on 9/19/07 8:13 PM, Brad Rhine at support at bradrhine dot com wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
> 
>>> I tend to agree.  I think they've moved their communication to the
>>> forums, which would be fine if forums didn't suck so much.  :)
>>> Except
>>> for William, who (to be fair) did post his thoughts about Rb3D here.
>> 
>> Actually I'm not sure this is "official" communication but AAron did
>> mention that binding are deprecated.
>> 
>> I can't find any such mention in the release notes though
> 
> Actually, Mars later clarified that bindings are *scheduled* to be
> deprecated in R5. Here's his post from the forum:
> 
> ====
> I'm sorry about all this confusion. We had planned to drop the
> bindings feature in 2007r5, since it has been stagnant and basically
> unsupported for years. The binding bug came up late in the 2007r4
> development process and we decided that it did not make sense to
> invest a lot of dev time updating a feature we were about to remove.
> 
> We've fixed the delete bug for 2007r5, so you will at least be able
> to remove old bindings.
> 
> We have made some internal changes to the way we handle the
> deprecation process and I expect to do a better job communicating
> about these changes in the future.
> ====

It sure seems like there is a lot of chaos inside of RS at this point. All
of the engineers are communicating as individuals instead of a cohesive
team. Not a good sign for future work quality.

Chris


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