>If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious developer
time
>has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance.
>I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead makes more
sense,
>than spending it on releases.

I think that sums it up nicely.
Look to the future I say!

Rod Webster
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 12:33, Reinhard <reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2020, 21:38:16 CEST Alec Ari via Emc-developers
> wrote:
> > X.org was old, so Wayland was invented. Sysvinit was old so SystemD was
> > invented. If you don't like the GUI for LinuxCNC because it looks old,
> you
> > can make your interface look super pretty with qtpyvcp.
>
> Even if this was meant sarcastic ...
>
> When I started with linuxcnc, I had only litte change requirements to gui
> (well, in my point of view). Not for being old, but for functional
> requirements.
> Anyway - I started with release, but I had to realize, that neither
> glade-,
> nor qt-designer-extensions from lc worked on my debian installation.
> Asking
> for help in forum, I was told, that the designers will work with rip-
> installation.
> RIP-installation? - wtf - I wanted to start with linuxcnc, not bring it to
> cementery
>
> What ever - when I understand the second meaning of rip, I thought: why
> should
> I use a release, when I have to recompile all the stuff by myself?
> So I changed to git-master (then) and started to use rip-installation. Qt-
> designer-extensions stil don't work on my debian box and gscreen uses old
> designer (which had to be installed from source) and old python ...
> One day I was fatigued from corrupting my debian and using extensions from
> lc
> that don't really work, so I started to create my own gui.
>
> Meanwhile I arranged myself for using non-debian stuff on my debian box
> and I'm
> fine with master.
> So I don't care any more for releases.
> Never wanted to become a developer for lc, but I had so strange errors,
> that
> nobody seemed to be interested in, that I had to jump in the mud.
>
> If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious developer
> time
> has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance.
> I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead makes more
> sense,
> than spending it on releases.
>
>
> cheers Reinhard
>
>
>
>
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