On 01/12/12 09:05, Mariwan wrote:
> HI,
> Please FLTK developer try to find a way to collect the small projects (small
> extra library that is an extentions for fltk).
> As you didn't like my suggestion for the git , and it is up to you to do so
> but collecting the widgets beside the core FLTK is very important. Many
> questions in the forum is for finding them .. If you have them on the same
> home site, you make it easy for beginner and other who are interested in the
> toolkit to find answer for their questions.
> I hope that you discuss this issue between you ..
Yes, we should consider a better way for when we make
the next change over.
With the current system, 3rd party FLTK widgets are all under
fltk.org -> Links -> Show All Listings, eg:
http://fltk.org/links.php?LA+Q
..which has all kinds of categories: 'widgets', 'tutorials',
'apps', etc. It's a page that indirects to the locations of
the actual code.
If the problem with the current system is mainly *stale links*,
ie. our links point to sites that have since disappeared,
I imagine that could be solved if all code projects had to be
hosted on either sourceforge or github so that the project
remains if the author disappears.
We would probably still need a link 'janitor' to annually
purge stale links, or try to figure out what happened to
authors that haven't updated their code in a while.
No one has stepped up to handle that job in the past,
so I'm not sure the future would be much different.
Someone would have to take on the job of managing the 3rd
party stuff to keep the page "in shape".
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