On May 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Cory Helfrich wrote: > On May 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Michal Rudolf wrote: >> >> Wasn't Scid compiled separately for Mac or FreeBSD? > No. I have not seen a working scid installation package for Mac yet. > I must compile scid from the source files to install it. Well, it's true that there hasn't been an installable binary for Mac, but I have been doing some work to that end. In fact I can build one today that will work for the majority of cases. Going to 8.5 would render most of that work useless and delay making a Mac binary available.
I'm in agreement with Alexander that it is premature to be moving in that direction yet. At least for a stable branch. Also, Pascal, I think you may be underestimating the cost of a merge. If everything goes according to plan, sure, it might be that easy, but it will take some effort to make sure that the branches do not diverge and that any changes in support of the new widgets do not conflict with existing code. It's not impossible by any means but merges can be painful. > >> >> While I understand your concerns as proposed solution isn't >> elegant, I don't >> think most users care. They much prefer nicer, easier to use GUI than >> perfectly clean installation. > I hate to be a "naysayer", but, given the above choice, I would vote > for the perfectly clean installation with the existing GUI. > I second this. I hate to be even more of a naysayer but if you really want a nice GUI for scid it seems that reworking some of the existing UI with 8.4 would give more usability improvements. Ditching Tk altogether (a ton of work) would give even more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
