Duion {l Wrote}:Not me, but other people you are constantly protecting through your censorship, so they do not have to defend themselves.
I'll show you an example, which happened lot of years ago, to you understand what could be a different approach on suggesting something different than the current way-of-develop people take on their projects.
Back on the time of the first (2005) or second (2006) DNT pre-alpha release, on a time where this community didn't even exist and most of the Linux game community was around the Linux Game Tome (happypenguin), I received an email from charlieg, back than just a user of the LGT asking why we are reinventing the wheel creating a custom house engine/renderer and not using some existing alternative, as it could make our work easer on achieving a playable state to the game (I'm saying by memory, didn't have the email anymore).
We answered that we had a bad time with Crystal Space (At the time, Ogre3D was just on an early stage and the two main C++ Libre engines where Crystal Space and Irrlich), and, as we were back than a group of CS students, using DNT for our learning (and even class) purposes, we believe the best would to write down directly from SDL/OpenGL (not sure about the words, and I even believe we were a bit more rude on the answer - if it was the case, sorry charlie, relieve it to some early student mind).
After that, DNT development continues, I've learned a lot both about programming in general and low-level computer with it (and I believe every other people envolved too, both from our university back than, and from the community who helped and contributed a lot to DNT), which I did not regret. Charlie understand (although I believe he didn't fully agree with) our reasons, and life go on, both for us and for him. As far as I understand, no one was hurt for discordance with each other, nothing bad happened: it was just a suggestion that the other side could or not agree and follow.
Ok, if I would start a DNT-like project now, I should use an existing engine. But that's only because I already made my own and learned a lot with it.
Please Duion, note the difference in the approach charlie had from yours: he didn't use the game page at LGT (avoiding at the worst case creating a flame war on the project's showcase), but sent a personal email; he didn't try to discourage us, but just asked why we not use an alternative to the work we were doing (I do believe he even mentioned some of the alternatives), and he didn't continue to say we were wrong and should never be doing what we were on DNT after we told him the reasons of our choices: he just understand and respected our freedom.