On 12-Sep-00 at 12:50, Mark Hatch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At 11:44 AM 9/12/2000 -0400, cat2 wrote:
> >Wy do we need to wait for it to be posted?? That's the whole purpose of
> >CVS. If things were being put into CVS you may get some help along the
> >way, instead of waiting for something to be complete. More later, lunch is
> > coming......
>
>
> There will be plenty of opportunity to help! We were waiting until we had a
> relatively complete subset that would:
>
> - compile and run without obviously breaking anything
> - allow people to critique/suggest architectural improvements
> - provide examples on how it could be extended
>
> For example, we left the text field widget as an exercise for the brave...
> ;-)
This is my point exactly. Who are you to say that it won't obviously break
anything? You don't have all of my code. I doubt that you have compiled it with
everything that is out there. This is the whole point of CVS!! If someone
whats, or needs a stable release they pull from a known tag. I someone pulls
from the head, they know that it is in flux an may be able to help fix problems
before you know that they exist. Doing things the way that they seem to be
going, we have to wait for you to say "I think this is good, what do you
think", and only then do you find out about the problems that you didn't think
of. If you can confidently say that you have thought of _everything_ then I
would really like to meet you......
>
> The architecture at this point includes a GTK theme converter and a very
> basic pixmap based engine. Merging the two for on-the-fly pickup of themes
> would be nice. Support for additional theme engines would also be welcome!
Well, if we knew what was going on in the mean time this might already have
been done!!!
>
> We are also prepared to do a complete rewrite with the help others once
> people have a chance to review the architecture and point out its
> shortcomings.
A complete re-write might not be necessary if someone had the chance to point
out a flaw in the beginning.....
This may be tagged with the name "OpenMotif", but from what I have seen so far
it is _far_ from open......
>
> So this is just the 0.1 release, nothing more.
>
> Mark
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