RLVa

Whenever someone proposes a feature there’s the usual back-and-forth on whether or not it is (widely) useful, what the consequences are and whether or not it fits what someone is actually trying to achieve.

That usually results in a fairly good outline of what it should do but inevitably problems arise either during development or when people actually get to try it out and find that they’re not quite happy with this or that little thing, or they imagined it very differently, or hadn’t anticipated this or that quirk.

I’d like to stress that I don’t particularly feel like breaking the RLV command API specification since it’s not something that helps or benefits anyone and only creates complications so any “experimental” command implementations will be available only in “preview releases” I put up (if only because bugs or comments can be addressed within days rather than weeks).

That said, RLVa-1.1.0 does add a limited number of “experimental” commands with the intent to gather feedback and allow those creators/people who will actually be using the commands/restrictions the opportunity to actually try them out and give feedback followed by modifications based on that feedback (much like a good many people chimed in when @putinv was added to Henri’s Cool Viewer).

The end result will hopefully be some consensus on whether any particular “experimental command” is actually “useful” or generally “undesired”, and if it’s useful the eventual proposal would have a rather detailed set of “wants/don’t wants” that (most) everyone who will actually be using the command/restriction is happy with.