Yes, the appearance would seem to be that TTDP is unmaintained. Unfortunately this has been forced upon TTDP. The status of TTDP is currently nightly r2366. Not too long ago, DaleStan attempted to commit an update to r2367. Apparently the server farm is no longer able to compile TTDP. A little history is in order. At one time TTDP had it's own SVN repository and compile farm. A decision was made that these services should be moved to the OpenTTD servers. All was well until those maintaining the OpenTTD servers found it prudent to upgrade. There were problems. The new installation broke OpenTTD. It was fixed. Unfortunately nobody thought to check to see if there were problems with TTDP compiling as well. There were. Some weeks ago Rubidium was kind enough to reply to my PM'd inquiry and at the time I found his response to be quite reasonable and acceptable. The conclusion was that the TTDP situation would be fixed. We are still waiting patiently. Suffice it to say, TTDP is very much maintained as long as those who undertook to maintain the necessary tools meet their fiduciary responsibility to provide the support that they committed to.andythenorth wrote:@wally - TTDP is pretty much unmaintained AFAIK, at some point it's impossible to maintain a spec between the two games. We're pretty close to that.
As for maintaining a spec between the two games, this is not impossible and never will be. The only way that the spec could be made to diverge into separate paths is that someone makes a conscious effort to force the issue. That would be a very sad day for two communities that up until now were mostly able to work in concert. Hopefully both communities will continue in a remarkable spirit of co-operation in spite of the few who either through intent or through ignorance would frustrate this process.
In conclusion, TTDP is still very much in the game. It is merely stalled at r2366 through no fault of it's own.