Monthly Archives: August 2011

PureBasic development

Some questions raised on the forums about the current pace of PureBasic development. The update are less frequent and some users are wondering if it’s not the end of PureBasic. No, it’s definitively not. We want to explain here, why it took longer than usual to release a new version (we had a very fast release cycle for this kind of software): first the current version to release, 4.60, is a big one: it has a lot of new commands, especially on the 3D side, and all these commands needs to have a proper documentation. And I write this documentation. You guess it, it’s boring, and i’m not really enjoying that part. Now, that’s not an excuse to have 2 months between two beta version right ? It should have something else. And you are right. We have since the beginning of the year a daily job, which means less time for PureBasic. We have nothing to hide here. Like most of you, we need to have a real job for a living. And it’s not the first time it happens: during the 10 years of PureBasic development, I have worked 5 years on a daily job, without big impact on PureBasic. So no need to panic, PureBasic is here and will continue to grow. We are also confident that its now a mature and very capable product. To finish on the ‘PureBasic end’ things: if we decide to stop PureBasic (which is very unlikely), we will release it to the community, either in Open Source form, or to a small group which could take over the development.

Some asked for our future plans. Here we go: we plan to release the 4.60 version early on september and a 4.61 bug fix version somewhen in november. In between, we will continue to work on the new features for the next version, we have quite some projet to make it better. So stay tuned !