Re: [Anygui-devel] Idea for backend maintainers: "reversal of roles"
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From: Samuele P. <ped...@bl...> - 2003-03-01 12:01:55
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From: "Magnus Lie Hetland" <ma...@he...> > > In general IMO it is never a good idea to distribute a piece of user visible > > functionality that a project does not mantain, because one will get complains > > and questions that then should be redirected ... > > Yup. iow, if the main maintainers e.g. of wx become the maintainers of the wx backend this thing could work, but otherwise simply moving a project will not create maintainers by magic ... at the moment we don't even have a fixed api > > We have already this problem with parts of PyXML in Jython, there > > the added value make it meaningful and CPython also does this > > redistribution, still it is painful. > > > > I think Anygui can choose to try to have just working backends for a > > small subsets of toolkits (tk + swing + wx ...?), but shipping none > > or just one is problematic ... > > You may be right. All the actual target toolkits seem really too many, 0 or 1 are too few ... I think we should pick 2/3 toolkit and try to get feature-complete 0.2 backends for them. If we cannot even do that then ... |