Lapo Luchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > >He has something. Frankly, I think we should let harold release these > >packages. He's got a firm understanding of the underlying mechanics of > >how X works. > > > That is indeed the best choice, maybe I read his message in a way too > non-optimistic view =) >
You read my message correctly the first time. I do not have enough time to work on glib and gtk+. You are more than welcome to work on them. I think that Nicholas might want to work with you on them. > > Plus if you commit to maintainership of 1.X, then it is > >assumed that you will be working on porting 2.X. Are you ready for this > >responsibility? > > > It's not a question of responsability, but of lack of knowledge and lack > of time to obtain that knowledge ^_^ > But again, I don't have idea of how much hard would it be... I just seen > the 20k patch to gtk+-1.2.10 by Steven and Corinna says that right now > it compiles OOTB. > OOTB is fairly different from "20k patch needed" IMHO, bay shortly after > I received a message from Steven stating that his port is fairly old and > many things changed (porting of autotools being the biggest, I bet)... > I would actually have the same problem with not having enough knowledge. I am sort of an interesting person though... I tend to gater, filter, and absorb information/knowledge faster than most people, and I tend to do something productive with that info quite quickly. That is not to say, however, that I have 10 to 20 hours to mess around with glib and gtk+. :) > >As for freeciv, I will send you a static lib of Xaw3d to see if that will > >help you better. I would then release free-civ as is. > > > >We can worry about why the DLL version of Xaw3d isn't working later. > > > OK. > > > Again, is there any rush to getting it out? > > > No, just the fact that when I begin something I like to finish it soon > so that it doesn't occupy space in my head (don't know how to express it > in english but an "unfinished task" lingers in my head until it is "put > at rest" by solving it). > But again, also given the beauty of win32 native port (well, not that > native, it uses gtk+), the is no rush in it. > I know precisely what you mean. I even go a little further than that in that I have a list of projects that I can't wait for other people to finish. Recently, some of those projects were: Mozilla 1.0 (yay!), OpenOffice.org 1.0 (yippee!), The Big Dig (www.bigdig.com), the International Space Station (or whatever the current space shuttle mission is), the parking garage across the street, etc. :) I love watching big projects and I love seeing them pass milestones. I guess I am just a freak for big projects... :) Hey, this is off-topic... nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. Harold
