Project Update

12/09/2005
Hi to everyone :). This is another project update.

I am pleased to announce that Benny Baumann has become the first language developer for the GeSHi project. His task is to oversee the development and maintenance of Delphi support for 1.1.X. He has plenty of experience in Delphi, being part of the Omorphia project, and his expertise will ensure that Delphi highlighting will be as good as it can be. In addition, him and I have had good discussions about how 1.1.X can be improved, particularly in regards to theming and memory usage.

I am calling still for more developers to join me in helping out for language support for 1.1.X -> 1.2. If you have experience in a language and some experience in PHP, and a bit of spare time to help out, why not contact me (nigel at geshi dot org) and volunteer your services?

And the other piece of news: Due to a disagreement I have had with the crew at phpBB, I am now discontinuing all work on the GeSHi phpBB MOD. It will remain as it is, with bugs now becoming "features". I regret being put in this position, but I am not going to develop software for a group who doesn't care for my loyalty to them. I have far too many pressures on my time.

In addition, although I cannot enforce this, I will strongly oppose anyone who attempts to develop a MOD for phpBB using this software.

At least now this is one demand off my time I will be able to spend more time on GeSHi.

And finally, on a lighter note, I have a mere 4 weeks of university to go, after which I will be able to spend more time on GeSHi. You may have noticed the upswing in releases around the last time I was on holiday, and I predict a similar increase this time :)