LOL the best laid plans of mice and men.... I thought people would be happy to know they could get a optimized app for the BF, and get a killer rac. I thought it would be good to reward people for taking advantage of the open source nature of the TSP project. I was very happy that someone took the time to make the updates I never got around to doing, as well as the things I had not thought of doing.

What do I get in return? Someone suggesting Im lazy and a poor coder, as well as other crunchers being accused of cheating. At least one user has gone so far as to drop TSP altogether over this. I understand that it is the view expressed by one person here but the TSP does not live in a vacuum no matter how much I would like it to, and there are others that feel the same way. I have often been tempted to just grant 1,000,000 credits per workunit just to devalue the credit system altogether, and hope all the discussion about credits goes away. This would obviously be unfair to other projects.

I don't like dealing with credits, and the BF app is all but useless on its own. It's only useful as a second step in a larger algorithm.

So where do I go from here? Well I'm not doing anything for the rest of this week. The ACO is ready, but I need to put some more thought into the experimental design, and workunit generation. I also have to fix GA. The people that worked hard on fixing the BF should reap some reward. Come Monday, I'll turn off the BF work generator and make a decision on the future of the BF.