Re: [libksd-devel] Looking to the future ...

[Andrew S. H. <ste...@ha...>]

I just downloaded the newest version of libksd and tried to compile 
it--using spare time I should be using for my final projects and 
sleeping! ;)  I had problems with autogen.sh so I got the latest 
automake (1.5), autoconf (2.52), and libtool (1.4.2) and I still have 
issues--albeit different ones.  I do believe the build system must be 
simplified and fixed.  I mean no disrespect and am speaking as one with 
little experience in these tools.  However, I have on more than one 
occasion gone looking for another project to work on similar to this one 
because of how cruddy the build system has treated me.  This is a show 
stopper, in my opinion.  Must we require such particular versions of 
these build tools?  The build system shouldn't need to be so specific 
for building to work properly.

Regards,
Sterling

David Snopek wrote:

> I just release LibKSD 0.0.4 today!  I very happy with it!  Here is the 
> developer-style list of changes:
>
> - Reworked surface architecture to accomadate OpenGL
> - Replaced error with C++ style exceptions
> - Fixed up TSharedLibrary
> - Wrote some docuemtation
> - General API clean up
>
> The next release will be 0.1.0, the first developemental release!  
> What this means is that we will no longer be do huge re-writes each 
> release and focus more on adding new features and doing bug testing.  
> After the next release we will be working up to 0.2.0, or the first 
> stable release.
>
> Here is a list of things I want to finish for the 0.1.0 release:
>
> - Rewrite (hopeful the last goal that starts with that word) TWidget 
> for  more extensibility.  Overall, I see TWidget as one big hack. 
> Everytime I need a new feature I add some more widget flags to 
> implement that feature.  While some of these flags are valid: double 
> buffer, accept input, etc., most are used just once.  I need to make 
> it possible to extend a widget generically and move all the valid 
> widget flags down to TControl.  This way users can add their own 
> features that I didn't think of without editing the code.
> - I broke the drawing code a bit with the surface rewrite, mainly the 
> clipping is incorrect.  Fixing this is a priority for the next release.
> - Writting unit tests.  I want to be able to work on various parts of 
> the library and have the code automatically verify that we haven't 
> broken anything.  I want to institute a policy where if a bug is 
> found, you must write a unit test to test for that bug.  This way 
> making sure that something similar is found before the code is released.
> - Audit the audio code.  I haven't spent very much time in the audio 
> code although I know that its reference counting mechanism is broken.  
> I think we need to take a serious look at it.
> - Fix TApplication::Exit().  I was actually planning on doing this for 
> the 0.0.4 release but didn;t get arround to it.  But it must be 
> finished in order to have a developemental release.  (If you are 
> unfamilar with this problem, I have documented in the source.  See 
> Application.{h,cpp}).
>
> Long term goals:
>
> - Make widget-set world class.  This includes adding XML definitions, 
> more themes, and a visual GUI builder.
> - Include a default OpenGL based 3D engine.
> - Implement the image loading code without SDL_image to provide image 
> saving.  We could problably copy all of SDL_image out for the image 
> reading since we use the same license.
> - Add more sophisticated drawing code, including rotating, 
> anti-aliased  lines, brush images and patterns, etc.
> - Finish that damned input filter system!!
> - Add support for animations, including common anitmation formats: 
> mpeg, mng, animated gif...
>
> I don't know how much of the long term goals will be finished for the 
> first stable release.  We'll just play that by ear. Hopefully, I can 
> get this developemental release out in about two monthes (such is my 
> goal! :-) so the real work can begin!
>
>     -- David Snopek
>
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> | Only want to write it once??
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