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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 723645" data-attributes="member: 527">What I found odd about the announcement was that Wizards is hiring a team with 1) a lot of qualifications in managing D&D source data, 2) qualifications in Java programming, 3) no qualifications in C or C++?  (Does CMP have C experience from separate projects?  If so, why that horrible Java language?)Anyway, while its really cool to have a good long term architecture for dealing with the data, CMP's first e-Tools milestone is 90 days away with someone elses code (if I remember the commentary correctly!)  They arent going to have time to gut e-Tools and make it work like PCGen; they are looking at two tasks:1) Figure out what makes e-Tools tick; understand the existing code.2) Make whatever changes are necessary to meet the first milestone.Now, thats assuming they are looking at a long term relationship with the e-Tools code.  They could be looking at this like mod-authors; that they just are going to mod the data but that would be a not very much of a solution.  Ie, the bulk of whats wrong with e-Tools would stay wrong.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Now, for the Open Source question.  The PCGen guys carried the ball for a long time, and if its time for them to move on, then so be it.  For those of you crying about this, Open Source doesnt mean "Free Stuff For ME Forever!".   Open Source gives everyone an opportunity to make a contribution.  If you feel that PCGen will die without some help, then DL the source and do some pro bono work on your own.</blockquote>

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