The end-of-life for my programs
I've been thinking about this a long time but I've finally decided: I'm now announcing "end-of-life" for both JFile Companion and MPC. There are several reasons for this decision:
- The most important reason is that during the last couple of years I've had very little time to spend on coding. The result has been that I haven't managed to implement features that I had planned to introduce or not even managed to make small improvements.
- I don't own a Palm anymore, and the interest of my program has declined steadily over the last three-four years. I personally consider the Palm platform dead.
- The development environment I used for creating JFile Companion and MPC has evolved in a direction that I don't like and I don't enjoy using it anymore.
- The cost of keeping up-to-date versions of the development environment has increased and I can't justify spending my money on further updates.
- I assume that Leopard will break something in how JFC/MPC work, I haven't had the chance to test yet, and since it would cost me more money to update my development environment that I've earned on JFC/MPC I can't update it.
I understand that some of you will be disappointed with this decision but I hope you can understand my decision.
What about existing customers?
I will support them for as long as I can, but as I mentioned above I haven't the money to update the development to fix any Leopard related problems.
Will I stop programming?
Not likely, it's after all a part of my day job and also one of my hobbies. I just hope that I will get the time to learn Objective-C and Cocoa so I can start to write new applications again (I'm not out of ideas !!).