Hello folks,
After giving it some thought, I think maintaining a separate port of
JGoodies FormLayout is pointless inasmuch as SwtForms is a
well-maintained, compatibly licensed alternative. Therefore I will be
withdrawing my contribution.
With that said, my code will remain EPL licensed and anyone is welcome
to fork the code and/or use it in their own development projects.
Thanks everyone for your interest, and thanks especially to the Nebula
members who gave me their vote of support.
Matthew Hall
Christopher J Gross wrote:
Hi Matthew,
What are you current thoughts on this?
regards,
-Chris
From: Christopher J Gross/Arlington/IBM
To: Matthew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05/14/2008 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] JGoodies FormLayout port
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Hi Matthew,
Sorry for the late response (vacation). I agree with your thinking.
If theres already an actively maintained version of this component
with sufficient licensing - why bother...? If you'd like to withdraw
the contribution you should write an email to the nebula-dev list.
regards,
-Chris
From: Matthew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Christopher J Gross/Arlington/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05/08/2008 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] JGoodies FormLayout port
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Chris,
Now that I know about SwtForms I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble
to maintain our own port. It's BSD licensed, so is EPL friendly as
far as I know. Is there a compelling reason to maintain our own port,
or are we reinventing the wheel at this point?
Matthew
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I just want to note, that we sucessfully use the port from
_http://ffxml.net/swtforms.html_ as well (mentioned by
_http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/nebula-dev/msg00524.html_).
This port is based on JGoodies Forms 1.0.2.
In the last month we upgraded this port to equal JGoodies Forms 1.0.7
(I assume this will be available from Frank Fankhausers website soon).
In this process I could analyse a lot of the work that Florian has
done and this was all very well.
The API is as close to the original API as possible, while bringing
all the good layouting stuff to the SWT-world.
Of course this is no cleanroom implementation but an exact port. You
can even do a very good code comparison on the sources (provided that
you format both sources accordingly).
If you are concerned about licensing issues, please note, that Karsten
Lentzsch, original author of JGoodies a long time ago proposed to port
his implementation to SWT as well.
Unfortunataly this was never responded so well.
(_http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.swt/msg00841.html_)
Furthermore the project of Frank Fankhauser is referenced in the
documentation of JGoodies as well, so Karsten Lentzsch is aware of
this good work.
In regard to licensing issues, I think there won't be any problems, if
one gets in contact with Karsten Lentzsch.
We didn't decide yet, if we go on to upgrade Franks port to the
current JGoodies 1.2.0 since we just need the 1.0.7-like API.
Anyway - I suppose that this can be done within 1-2days, it might be
possible to do this in the next 1-3 months if this project is getting
momentum.
I don't know how the implementation of Matthew looks like. So I can't
judge about the quality and code compatibility to the original JGoodies.
I regard this (API as near to JGoodies as possible) as a very strong
must have. Thus all the original JGoodies Documentation matches perfectly.
Kind Regards,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Stefan Hansel
tolina GmbH
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