MiniVend 3.15

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Hi all,

At this point, I have reached the end for MiniVend 3. I am finding
it increasingly difficult to both maintain it and work on MiniVend 4.

I will be releasing 3.15 within a few weeks, so if you have any thing
that you feel should be fixed with it, speak now or forever hold your
peace. Note that I  may not feel the same way. 8-)

If someone would like to take over maintenance of this branch,
I would certainly be willing to deal. There is certainly a user
base that will find it difficult to switch to MV4. If you are a
consultant who wants business, I can guarantee it will be a source
of leads. I do know most of us that can handle it already have
more than enough to do. 8-)

Obviously there must be _strong_ Perl knowledge; MV is not simple
'print "this" and print "that"' code.

I think it has become the best of breed in a relatively small niche in
the e-commerce market -- free and high-end. 8-) But there is too much
baggage from previous versions, and it is not near where I would like
it to be. So I will focus on stripping out the inconsistencies and
eliminating features that have outlived their usefulness and producing
a third system instead of "The Mythical Man-Month" second system. Where
possible I will build on current usage, but you can expect a major port
for MV 4.

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