**Branch abandoned?? - not quite - change of heart **
Following a false start back in 2013/4 in the parsnip branch, development of CodeSnip 5 restarted in this pagoda branch, which picked up where parsnip left off. (Don't ask where those names came from!)
While pagoda has also been abandoned now, a recent branch named pavilion has been started to explore whether this code is the quickest route to getting a new version of CodeSnip working that both removes dependency on the soon-to-close DelphiDabbler.com webserver and unifies the user and "main" databases.
Only time will tell if this works out. I may bring it to completion if I can do it in a timely manner, but pavilion may also find itself abandoned if time runs out.
The pagoda branch has been left in place in case anyone else wants to continue development along different lines. All my development effort will continue in pavilion.
The original idea behind v5 was to:
- Generalise CodeSnip to be a code bank for several different languages instead of just Pascal, while still providing some additional support for test-compiling Pascal code.
- Increase the focus on the user's own code while downplaying the importance of code downloaded from the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets database, like SWAG is at present. †
- Remove the program's dependency on web services provided by DelphiDabbler.com given the current uncertainty over that websites future.
† It is hoped to move the Code Snippets database to GitHub before DelphiDabbler closes down on 15 June 2020.
If you decide to continue with this development please fork the repo. Do not submit changes back here - no pull requests will be accepted. However, it will be interesting to know what you plan. Do not use any code that accesses the delphidabbler.com web services - they really are going away on 15 June 2020 Thanks.