On 11/23/2012 01:05 PM, Richard Esplin wrote: > When I started the list I was thinking of all of these as recent events. I > guess I'm getting old.
Maybe when OSS projects starting getting large and popular, they tend this way. I guess I can see how the bazaar method of development can't completely work for projects that have a huge code base. On the other hand I hate to see how Linux software development has become so cathedral-oriented and resembling opaque commercial development methodologies more and more. Maybe it's a consequence of the amount of commercial involvement these days. Gnome and GTK+ really are vital to RH's success, and so they have kind of taken them over. He who has the gold sort of thing. Or maybe just human egos. As we've seen with LibreOffice and X.org it is possible to fork these large projects. My concern after reading that article was particularly with GTK+. It seems like more and more GTK+ is the "Gnome Took Kit" and not just a widget GUI framework anymore. I don't particularly care for Gnome but I would like to develop little apps with GTK+ from time to time, and I'd like them to run on any OS and desktop environment. GTK+ devs no longer seem to care about that use of their toolkit. I think if I needed to start a major deskop app these days I'd pick Qt, just because it isn't a brand, it's not about a particular look or platform. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
