Hi All, It has been mentioned a couple of times now that having multiple APIs for use with fltk3 means multiple times the test load.
I suggest what is required is an automated test system, not as a replacement to manual testing but as a way to confirm that each test application renders as per the reference render. The test applications already exist, what seems to be needed is the method to run them, obtain UI capures, send events to the program and obtain more captures, compare the captures to the renders and log the results. This would boost confidence in the integrity of the various APIs and in the core of fltk while the developer was busy doing something equally important - like getting enough sleep at night : ) I still feel that over the longer term, bringing development energy back together instead of continuing down divergent paths is better for the users. If the price of that is we have to support the 1.3.x API then we need to make the method used to support it nice, slim and standardised so it doesn't take much work to include it. To state it from my point of view, the goals of F3 are: - To provide a stable, clean, and ready for expansion core FLTK - To provide a 100% code compatible wrapper set around the core so F1 (and F2) users can move to F3. - To unify development effort going forward so that everyone benefits faster from everything. - To allow the retirement of F1 and F2 branches from support as F3 allows the old code to build while allowing the use of the new core API as well. - To prevent the "Help! which version should I be using?!?!" panic which scares off new users. I feel that, whatever decision is made for the API, F3 can only be good for the community as a whole. Most of the bloat of the other frameworks comes from architectural decisions. I don't see FLTK ever weighing in at the same sort of mass as QT, GTK or wx. It would probably be very useful if users of the 1.3 API would build against both 1.3 and 3(1.3 compatability API) and provide feedback as to performance differences and what breaks. -- -Edward Hull _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
