Subj : Re: Mystic 2.0
To   : Erich B.
From : g00r00
Date : Mon Sep 28 2020 11:36 am

 EB> Will Mystic 2.0 come to light one day?

Probably at some point but this is a complex answer.

Historically I've used those 2.x versions for the purpose of experimenting with
major changes that end up in the 1.x version.  For example the current server
code in MIS started off as a Mystic 2 demo that people could test.  It had IPV6
and SSL/SSH which weren't in 1.x at the time.  The current -CFG menus started
off in a Mystic 2.x release, and so on.

Both times I had a publically released Mystic 2 branch available, the community
voted to continue with 1 and discontinue working on Mystic 2.  They wanted me
to move some key features from 2 demo into 1.

There is almost always a "Mystic 2 build" that I am working on that has never
been released.  They are sort of a "proof of concept" and one was even written
in Java.  The current unreleased iteration focuses on an entirely new terminal
engine, a entirely new MPL, and uses SQL databases.  Maybe that will become the
real Mystic 2? Or maybe some of those things will get moved into 1.x.  Who
knows!

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