For 3.1.4, they weren’t “other developers”, they were pretty much the same ones that also worked on 3.5 and 3.9,
Agreed, and thanks for the correction. I did actually plan to formulate this differently, but got distracted and forgot.
What I thought about was that some of the developers closest to H&P, not least Jochen Becher, took part in the "dead end", if it was, where their sources never went into the OS repository (for good or bad reasons, not my place to judge). Therefore those modules weren't available as parts/basis for neither 4.x nor 3.1.4/3.2.
most of the key components also came from 3.9 just as much as from 3.1 directly, only a few came via 4.x. The only missing 3.9 components were all the ReAction classes and resource.library, and software relying on these, essentially all OS3.9 Reaction based prefs programs.
Thanks for that clarification too - as I wrote, I haven't used these later 3.x releases or been as close to their creation as I have been to the others.
Oh, and HDToolBox (and hdwrench.library) by Joan Dow.
Joanne, actually (sorry for nitpicking :-)). But she left already after 3.5, IIRC.
So I would argue that the REAL end-of-line OS release for A2000 (and the other 68k systems) is currently on the hard drive of ThoR
Oh dear, sounds like a sad, but recognizable story ...
And this brings us back to what Amiga is REALLY about - drama! - arguing, whining, bickering, blaming, entitlement, huge egos, besserwissers, splitting, forking, hacking, patching…
Indeed. Wish all that negative energy could be reversed and put to better use.
Best regards,
Niels