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It doesn't appear to be a code-dump to GitHub, which would be indicative of fading interest on behalf of the original developer.

The ReadMe, build process, and licensing instructions all point towards this being a well planned Open Sourcing of a product.

I'm pleased with this, and hopefully it will spur development of TM2, allowing it to truly compete with the up-and-coming Sublime Text 2.

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> the up-and-coming Sublime Text 2

Sublime Text 2 has been released since later this June[0]

[0] http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-0-re...

I think he means in terms of popularity, not release date.

You're confusing up-and-coming, meaning "showing promise", with upcoming, meaning "forthcoming".

Thanks, I'm not a native english speaker so I misunderstood the idiomatic expression's true meaning.

To be fair, that is a particularly idiotic idiom.

Your understanding was correct. I think the phrase 'rising' would have been a better choice for what the parent comment meant.

> It doesn't appear to be a code-dump to GitHub

It does appear to be, because there's no history -- everything is "Initial commit".

Maybe he wasn't using a version control system or a different one from git and didn't want to import?

I'm betting it was from Mercurial and he didn't bother to roll over the history.

From the readme:

>sudo port install ninja ragel boost multimarkdown mercurial

Yes it says later that it's only for a the SCM library tests, but it is ported to Github. Why not test the SCM library with git if you were using that? Seems more likely that he used Hg and was testing with it as well.

If I were to release any of our internal code to be open source, I would do the same. Nobody really needs to know I get lazy on EVERY Friday afternoon and check everything in as WIP.

It looks to me as though the source is freely downloadable from github if you want to compile it yourself, but the Mac installer version is being sold at its usual price.

Since you can certainly sell a GPL'ed app, is this "well-planned open sourcing" going to continue to sell the installer version, start giving it away, or discontinue it? I don't see any mention of this issue on either site, but maybe I just missed it.

There is no "installer version" of TextMate. It's just an ordinary application bundle. See for yourself — here's the 2.0 alpha posted on the Macromates blog; it will auto-update to the latest alpha:

http://updates.textmate.org/Application/TextMate_r8930.tbz

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