A quick note on 'officialness'

For some time now, thanks to the miracles of Google Analytics, I've been noticing some visitors and talkers about this Dev-C++ fork are complaining that's it's not official enough. Like, say, 'I'm not upgrading until an official Bloodshed version will be released'.

Well, I can tell you, that's not going to happen. You wouldn't want to know how many times I tried to get into contact with Colin Laplace (the old lead developer) and a few other developers associated with the old SourceForge project page. Why bother you ask? Well, Bloodshed.net is still the number one hit on Google, and this blog is not, which is one of the reasons why some Dev-C++ users still don't know of this fork. The old SourceForge page is a similar story.

Anyways, the old developers are gone. There won't be any new version released by them. But why bother waiting? What's the difference between them or I doing the coding and other stuff? Sure, it might take me a while longer to fix stuff, but still: what's the point of waiting for them to do the job?

Concluding: do yourself a favor and switch to Orwell Dev-C++ if you're still using the old versions!

New bug tracker on SourceForge

Although it has been available for a while for testing purposes, an official bug tracker for this project on SourceForge is now open to the public. It can be viewed and used over here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/orwelldevcpp/tickets/

This will make bug reporting and response a whole lot easier, and will give me a lot more overview of what I've got to do at the moment.

Currently, a SourceForge account is required to create bug reports there, but you should be able to use your Google, OpenID and other accounts too. Although you can still report bugs in the comments or by emailing me, it is recommended to use the tracker now. This way, much more people will be able to comment on reported problems!