Sven, For any DirectFB folks who may not know who you are, Sven is a GIMP maintainer who frequently posts remarks critical of me personally and my projects. Whenever a question regarding my projects is posted to a public forum it seems Sven is there ready to offer his opinion that my projects should cease to exist and to advise others not to work with me on open source. Whether his unfriendly advice is motivated by self-interest, incompetence, officiousness, or malice I can't tell.
Unless Sven is officially speaking for DirectFB I would like to hear from others. > The GTK+ 1.2 codebase is dead and unmaintained; you are wasting your > time. GTK1 is not dead, not unmaintained, and how I spend my time is my business. I'm not working on GTK 1.2. The current version on Windows is 1.3. I'm working on the new version, GTK 1.4. Although the GTK project group has gone on to GTK2, Owen Taylor at gtk.org tells me he is still the maintainer for GTK 1.2 for Linux. Tor Lillqvist of GIMP for Windows was the maintainer of GTK 1.3 for Windows, but that responsibility recently passed to me. I have been the project leader for GTK+OSX since last year. That is at version 0.5, though based on GTK 1. www.gtk.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk1-win/ http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/index.html > As you might know already, the GTK+-2.x platform provides a backend > abstraction on the GDK layer. This makes it easy to port it to other > windowing systems. The GTK+-1.x platform doesn't provide such an > abstraction layer and any port would be substantially more effort. The GDK is an abstraction layer. GTK1 has been ported to many platforms. People sometimes advise me that it could be easier to do something using GTK2, Qt, FLTK, Wx, or some other window API they prefer. I can't do everything. > There's a README included in the gdk-directfb tarball. Thanks, Sven. Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
