> For example, as an > automechanic with ten workers, and if you need to fix two > cars where first > has only one broken wheel while second has all four wheels > broken, broken > engine, broken fenders... would you assign your workers > (attention) equally, > five to first and remaining five to second to work on each > for one month? > Here, with FLTK as it seems, in best, 80% of attention is > given to FLTK 1.x > and only remaining 20% at FLTK 2.x.
Unfortunatley, that example doesn't reflect the reality of open-source development. No one is assigning workers here, it's a community, folk just work on the bits that matter to them. What we have is I think, more like this. We have two cars, one of which is a really cool custom car that a few guys are working on in their spare time (fltk-2), the other (fltk-1.1) is being maintained by a bunch of guys who don't really mind that it's not so cool, because what they really need is a reliable ride into town... If fltk-1 dev stops, I'll still have to use fltk-1 for my existing codebase, and will not have any more effort to direct to fltk-2. I suspect a lot of the fltk-1 users are in a similar place - they are putting in as much effort as they can, so "stopping" fltk-1 will not suddenly free up a lot of resources to work on fltk-2. The idea that fltk-1 dev has held up fltk-2 dev is pretty much a fallacy, I think. I am tracking the fltk-2 work, and some of my code exists in fltk-2 versions, but it is not stable enough (in fact my last checkout won't even build) and I simply have no time to help fix it. I'd guess Greg and others are in a similar place. I'd like to help out more with fltk-2, I'd like to see it finished, but I don't have the time, I need to make a living with my existing work... -- Ian SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
