Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Proposal for 1.0

[Curtis L. O. <cur...@fl...>]

Melchior FRANZ wrote:

>I would *really* like to switch to a new plib version (and make this
>a requirement), because ...
>
>- several pu.h widgets are depreciated, and are now in puAux, where they
>  are actually maintained. (It's quite embarrassing if one has to submit
>  bugfixes for obsolete widgets, when there are already newer ones.)
>
>- 1.8.4 has a few bugs that cause gui style problems (pink input field)
>
>- we have still our own version of puList, although that has now been
>  included in puAux. (Cleanup of our code base.)
>
>- we have #ifdefs for plib >1.8.4 that shouldn't be there forever
>
>- we have at least one ugly workaround for a bug that is fixed in
>  plib/CVS
>
>- puAux contains new widgets that we could use
>
>I don't think we gain much from forking plib. *If* we have people
>interested in working on plib, those can as well ask for plib
>write access. (The texture compression was IMHO not "advertized"
>well, so I'm not really surprised that it was ignored.)
>  
>

In the past, when we've lobbied the plib people for a new release, 
they've been very forth coming.  Has anyone asked them to consider 
rolling out a new release?

Curt.

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