Hey,
I mean for for "some period of time". I gives me some freedom to brake
things without bothering people. One of the reason that drove me to
idea of forking gui+back is when I'm developing Project Center I need
to fix some things after GNUstep svn update. I need some stable
basement for PC development. I tired fix things that was not broken
before.
To achieve what you want, ou can jsut install the latest release instead
of tracking SVN trunk for svn.
Since I have several computers, I arrange to have one with stable
release and one with the latest stuff.
Actually some of the ideas are:
- remove old/unused code from 'back' (xdps, xlib);
xlib is far from unused, so leave it in.
xdps can indeed be removed, since the X11 extension never worked... I
read that it was removed, but it is still there. But inany case Fred
should look at that and do things correctly not to break anything.
- move general code 'back' to 'gui' (gsc if I remember correctly);
Discuss that with Fred, which is the maintainer.
- finish font, image, drawing, events in GUI and ART backend (blurred
lines, text positioning, focus issues with WindowMaker, start of first
app in session, handling of X server events, text selection etc.).
I give you 100% reason here. Things should work well and reliable on
WindowMaker, so that you have a reference implementation.
These are the basic things that MUST work correctly. Until then
developing applications for GNUstep is a pain in back (fix things that
was not broken before). I intentionally focus on UNIX, X11 and ART
backend. I want at least one combination of components to work best of
all (reference platform). I understand that other people has different
tastes but spreading efforts never lead us to success.
Understandable.
Riccardo
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