Wow, you guys have a pretty good fire going. Let me add some fuel to it!
I have had my project on hold for almost a year now as a result of the community script not being available. I am willing to wait yet another year if need be. I am not a paying customer yet as I only downloaded the scripts to give me a chance to become familiar with them and really find out if they can do what I need. The good news is that GT scripts are much more than I could ever need. The truth is that I knew that I needed the community script before I knew that there was even such a thing being considered.
Programming is not easy nor quick. As most of you know, just adding a couple of mods that are already written can keep you planted in front of your computers for days just trying to tweek the script for your needs. But if you feel that writing a whole script that has the ability to play well with all of the other scripts and securely manage all of log in and user needs, while maintaining the upgrade and expandablity properties GT scripts have always offer is taking too long, then I suggest that you attempt to write your own script to do the job. I tried and 10 months later I'm still waiting on the community script.
As far as other scripts being updated, not only is each project headed up by a different staff member, it is much easier and less time consuming to modify (update) an existing script than to write a new script from scratch. That why each of the 7 or so GT scripts has 10 or more mods available for it.
By the way, Alex has emailed and posted updates regarding the script so please stop asking. If he's busy replying to the same old questions about the script, then he's not working on the program is he!
Alex, if you happen to read this, please take your time and get it right the first time. Only give the beta to a few select people who know what they are doing, that way when the final script is released, nobody will have anything to bitch about. That should make the forum pretty quiet for a while.
beetleman Marcus L. Griswold