OK, the sum of your mails finally makes me write this. I should probably have written this two years ago. FLTK2 has become a pool of unnerving, buggy, rotten code, spread all over the world. What I mentioned before as babel effect and subcultures. [...]
Years ago I wrote a similar e-mail, when we were having trouble wrapping up FLTK1. It had, I think, a rougher tone, but then again I was younger... I recently sent one e-mail to this list, probing for how serious people were in following Bill´s fine (as always, in my view) proposal for a merge/paint job on FLTK1 to make some FLTK1.3 or whatever number you want to give. The discussion thread nearly died. Even Bill recommended at one point to continue with the FLTK1 core. What a shame that all the useful inventons in FLTK2 have been dilluted to a nothing. FLTK 1 was Bill´s work, we only helped and added to it. That LACK of design democracy is one of the reasons it worked. FLTK 2 allowed everyone to add and therefore to disagree and sidetrack. Could never come to any better than all other bloated libraries you find on sourceforge. [...] It has the added benefit for you of not having to read my blurbs anymore. Matthias PS: This is my personal opinion. Other developers and maintainers may or may not see this differently. Dear Matthias, this (ex) developer has seen it this way for a long time. It´s the dark side of opensource development. But here and there you find a beacon of light, such as FLTK (the original one, of course). Cheers... -- Gustavo Hime ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
