Ian, thank you for your wise comments. I only wish to wake up one day and see only one release of FLTK. I have already corrected the filechooser/scandir bugs, and if I ever finish it (and wont loose interest) I let the community know. PS:as a fltk2 'user' I really hate the "FL_" naming convention. > > > I was re-reading the Article #825(Versioning an vision), and=20 > > I am trying to figure out which is the best release to work with. > > It seem that 1.3 will be the actively supported release in=20 > > the future, so I should abandon ftlk2(and my thousand++ loc in fltk2). > > FLTK-core-team should also discontinue the dev of fltk2=20 > > release. > > Yes, I'm afraid that may be the easiest option in the short term.=20 > I don't think that any of the "core" team are actively working on fltk2 > now, they mostly seem (like me) to have been drawn into supporting > fltk-1.x because they needed it to maintain their own applications. > Dejan and a few other hardy souls were working on fltk2, but it was very > hard work with so few of them, and I suspect that effort has largely > faded away now? > > > As you said,I was seriously thinking of correcting the=20 > > fluid2(already started). But why bother to do so in a release=20 > > without clear future? I wouldnt want to end up be alone out=20 > > there. > > You might not be alone... It may just take someone to pick up the banner > of fltk2 to get it working again. A fair number of projects are using > fltk2 "in the wild" (I'm thinking of dillo and cinepaint and so forth, > and it seems Stroustrup refers to it in his latest book) so there may be > life in it yet if a sufficient mass of devs can be motivated. > > > > 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. > ******************************************************************** >
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