odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 ยท 13933 posts
odf posted Mon, 21 February 2011 at 5:18 AM
@SteveJax: That's how I see the WD variant, as well. It would be a special tool, not a fork. If it were me, I'd probably cut it down to just the bare minimum one needs in order to work with the Walk Designer. Also, I'd definitely keep it separate from the main distro, so that people who downloaded it knew what it was for.
But people have been talking about forks, and I've said repeatedly that I'd welcome them. You can't dismiss that. I can't force anyone, but I'd hope that everyone who creates an alternative or experimental version would make it very clear that they are diverging from the main line. And I already have four CR2s in that main line, so I'm at my limit, as well. Any more variation, and I'd have to come up with some really clever ways of making Poser figures more modular.
Anyway, I'm trying to keep the confusion to a reasonable level, but it is important to take into account that making a figure for end users has always been a secondary goal. Also, what really counts is not how much confusion we have for a short amount of time right now, but whether we'll be able to smooth things over so that someone who downloads the figure six months or a year from now does not get too confused.
-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.