[ruby-fltk-devel] FLTK release schedule

[Kevin S. <kev...@ho...>]

I asked the FLTK folks what their update schedule  looks like, and how
major the changes are going to be in 2.0. Here's an answer:

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Sweet wrote:
> There are some pretty significant changes to things like the menu and
> browser based widgets, and of course the style stuff.  The header
> files are under a new directory as well (fltk/Fl_Foo.h instead of
> FL/Fl_Foo.H) to make life a bit easier for mixed 1.x/2.x development.
> 
> There will be an intermediate 1.1 release (beta going out soon) that
> is accessible via CVS using the "v1_1" branch.  It incorporates some
> of the 2.0 widgets and features, without the style/scheme/theme
> and menu/browser changes.  This makes it 100% source compatible with
> FLTK 1.0.x while providing the benefits of 2.0 (which is still in
> alpha state)

So it looks like we should continue to target FLTK 1.x for a while longer.

Kevin