TiLP is dead; CalcForgeLP has picked up where it left off: https://www.calcforge.org/trac/calcforgelp/

Hi !



TilP is not dead.

Romain Lievins has left the project's leadership but the project is still alive.
CalcForgeLP is "just" a fork.

The upstream's maintainer has actually a lot of work and I think he's searching for contributor.

For the moment, the code of the upstream and the fork are exactly the same, the modifications are just name's change and fixing some bugs.

I can not advise you to choose one or the other, but saying that TilP project is dead is not true !

Indeed, 1) the libti*/TILP and TIEmu projects are not dead and 2) Kevin Kofler's forks at CalcForge are, well, forks with (at present) no distinctive features.
As he attends #tcpa, KermMartian probably knows about 1) already.

We communicate less (or at least, under a different form) than Kevin does, so people may have the impression that nothing is going on in libti*/TILP and TIEmu (especially because Romain's latest news were intentionally terse - no mention of what would happen next) - but that isn't true
For example, as evidenced by the commit log ("Merge from libti..."), most of the user-visible fixes libcalc* contain originate from libti*.

The funny thing is that I started adding a news to the TILP website earlier today, but didn't get to finishing it before going to dinner (I worked on other stuff, too)


What happened is that a short while before leaving, Romain proposed Julien to give me commit rights, thereby adding a co-maintainer alongside Kevin (that was the plan). Romain wasn't looking for a maintainer instead of Kevin (this kind of brutal actions aren't in Romain's style - Romain has always been very good at cooperative development, he even managed to convince Kevin not to fork TIEmu years ago).
I had never explicitly asked for commit rights. I guess that being one of the three main bug reporters / feature requesters / testers of TIEmu 2.x (the other ones are ExtendeD and Kevin), and having made a few patches lately, I was no complete stranger to the LPG software.

This plan for cooperative development within LPG was, well, smashed out to pieces by Kevin's extremely negative, destructive, anti-cooperative behaviour (auto-proclaiming himself maintainer, demanding that I give up on commit rights, etc.) in http://www.yaronet.com/posts.php?s=122111 (topic written in French). After Kevin's bad behaviour and disrespect, Julien and Romain decided to remove Kevin's commit rights from svn.tilp.info.

[EDIT: news now posted on the TILP website.]

Hey Lionel, thanks for stopping by and clearing that up. I definitely will give the new version a try, and I had some idea of that controversy from ticalc.org comments and the chatter on #tcpa, as you say.

I see I had bookmarked this topic, and it seems due for an update...

As you can see on ticalc ( http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146189.html ) and e.g. in http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4139 , TILP II 1.14 has been released.

Kevin has failed making a release of CalcForgeLP in the ten full months between TILP II 1.13 and 1.14. Anyway, most of the user-visible fixes and improvements that CalcForgeLP could provide users, have been backported from the TILP upstream (as acknowledged by Kevin's commit messages).

Well, I'm glad something has been released, I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks.