I say *no*. This ETK serves nothing other than to impede progress,
introduce confusion and serve one particular author's specific
needs/wants. If you guys really think ETK is the greatest thing since
sliced bread, please start another SF project for it. This is not
serving the Enlightenment project any good. Over three years of solid
work and experience have been put into EWL by hardworking developers,
and up to this point nobody has been able to come up with any semblance
of a valid reason why it should be replaced by some upstart piece of
code rudely thrown into CVS by an excited newcomer. This needs to go
away, plain and simple. Any other decision would be utterly immature,
anarchistic and ultimately catastrophic for the E project as a whole. I
appreciate Nathan's modesty in wanting to permit others to "do their
thing", but last I checked, this was the Enlightenment project, not an
international code obfuscation competition. You play with the team, or
you don't.
Ibukun
shadoi wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this whole EWL/ETK mess. Is there ANY
way for these two projects to co-exist? Even share some of the same
code? Could ETK be merged with EWL (perhaps have separate name spaces
for each API under EWL?), at least then, applications can still link to
EWL but use either API style. That is what we're talking about mainly
here, is the fact that ETK emulates GTK while EWL has a new
implementation. I know this would be a lot of work. There's bound to
be useless duplication, but at least it could be kept to a minimum, and
there wouldn't be this huge fork in the road for new applications (and
existing ones) to make a decision which E toolkit they're going to use.
Are both sides willing to work together to provide a way out of this mess?
If (and I suspect) the answer is no, then I vote for removing ETK and
have it be an outside project. Not that a "vote" has been called...
-Blake
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