Thank you Greg. I'll see what I can do about switching over. Hopefully I'm not shot by my team and that the actual transition isn't too painful. Thankfully, things haven't got too far along yet.
Hopefully a migration fixes my problems and lets me get a few nights of rest under my belt again. > Shon Pritchett wrote: > > I am a little scared to change APIs at this point but is it fair to say > > fltk 1.3 is the most actively developed right now? > > Definitely. > > FLTK2.0 has been trying to get to a release state for years, and > I think it's mostly stalled.. still in dev, and AFAIK no release date > in sight. > > There are a few reasons for the stall, I think. Here's one that probably > hasn't been mentioned. > > I might be wrong about the history, but I think Bill Spitzak, the > original > developer of FLTK, started the FLTK 2.x trunk to do a "cleanup" of the > API, > and several FLTK developers joined on that project. But it stalled, > I think partly because the commercial software Bill is a lead > programmer on, > and needed FLTK 2 for, Nuke, (which is the software that really got FLTK > rolling in the first place) switched from FLTK to QT (IIRC) for internal > reasons to do with the company that owns Nuke, and thus Bill had to > switch > gears in his day job. So I think the 2.x port lost some inertia there > when > the lead guy couldn't justify driving it anymore. > > Also, the 2.x rewrite and fixes proved to be a big thing to do, and it > missed many of its release dates, so many folks decided to stick with > 1.x. > And since there's a decade of FLTK 1.x apps that people are maintaining, > there's a strong force driving its continued development. > > 1.3.x is the active development, and is going to be the way to go > for the foreseeable future. 1.1.9 is the current stable release. > 1.3.x is not different from 1.1.x API-wise; 1.3.x is mainly a bump > in the major version number because of the UTF8 additions which changes > a lot of stuff under the hood. But most old apps will still compile fine > under 1.3.x unchanged. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
