[groovico]

I feel I need to throw my 2 cents in here.

Xplorer, we've been with x-cart for a very long time now (personally it's been 8 years for me), we've got software and mods that support x-cart 3 all the way through to the latest branches.

One issue we've always had with x-cart is the upgrade methodology, it's been very hap-hazzard on occasion.

We've seen many people panic (as you can see from this thread) as X-cart is tied into their financial income, their sites are also reliant on alot of custom work to skins, to mods, to the working of it to get it working how they need. Anytime an announcement like this is made (and it's almost always as soon as one release has just come out) it make people anxious on what's wrong with the current release or next big release.

X-cart has always needed a focus on the core code rather than all the extra features, in the past few years it's improved but at the same time it's become more and more code and resource intensive.

The problem with that is larger x-cart sites get slower (try comparing the brute speed of an x-cart 3 site with 60,000 customer records/200,000 orders/5000 products to an x-cart 4.X site with the same size of DB).

There are times when I wonder what x-cart admin is doing when I'm wanting to display a hundred orders, it acts as if you've asked it to run a marthon, even though the servers are more powerful these days the net speeds are faster etc

I'm all for future x-cart development, I'd rather x-cart 5 was a solid continuation of the x-cart series, I recall litecommerce was supposed to be x-cart Lite, years ago, which fell by the wayside.

X-cart is very well established, there's a real danger of alienating both customers and developers if it's development and announcments are not handled well.