I’ve received so many emails about Photon being public, with source easily downloadable, even people offering tens of dollars just to keep the ball rolling. I’d be a hypocrite if I say I don’t like these offers (kinda tempting, though), but in the spirit of Open Source, and since the technology is not really mine, I’ll open up a subversion repository of Photon within the week.
I’m really sorry if I’m not updating Photon lately. I’m just so busy with a lot of stuff. But last week, I just had a short time debugging what’s really wrong with Photon, and I found out that there is something weird about the XML-RPC message created by the plugin. The XML-RPC library used by the plugin was pretty old, and I also used it on one of my projects, Bandwagon. I was forced to use other XML-RPC libraries for Bandwagon because the XML-RPC library seem to have problems encoding “data” nodes in XML-RPC.
Anyway, to make the long story short, I am planning now to move to a new XML-RPC library, change a few UI behavior, and implement the “grid-type gallery” I’ve been promising since I started this project.
For those guys who were left in the dark, I’m really sorry. Please wait for the subversion repository and the next update. Hopefully this week (clearing up my sched just to finish this thing).
Should I just remove the donate button then? I feel so uneasy putting it there… feel like I don’t deserve having it there as of the moment.