[wyoDesktop-devel] wxUniv, wxGDK

[Otto W. <ott...@or...>]

Julian suggested to me to go ahead and split wxUniv off wxWidgets and
take care of it myself. This suits me well I hope it does you too.

If you agree or if you don't have better alternatives, I'll do the following:
- The split will be based on release 2.5.2 and might include some needed
bug fixes.
- Only directly to wxUniv related files are taken to minimize any impact
in the common parts.
- I'll try to prevent any incompatibilities until wyoDesktop finishes pre-state.
- I'm not going to actively keep the two version in sync, that's someone
else task.
- Any API changes within wxWidgets won't be taken care of by me in wxUniv.
- I may but can't guarantee I'll do a merge back, someone else might volunteer.

I don't see many problems. Of course I and you may miss bug fixes in the
common parts but since lower level W32 is rather stable and lower level
GDK is only used in wxUniv this won't be a big problem. Also a simple
mail to the other project might be sufficient. On the other side no API
changes are reasonably possible unless taken care of by _you_ in _both_
version. Okay, okay, you can simply go on but no sensible application
developer will use features he knows he has to scrap in a year or so.

To say it with other words, the API of wxUniv will stick with the
version of 2.5.2 unless you submit _all_ the necessary changes. Even
than I might not apply them if I consider them not important enough.
I'll stick to this policy until the pre-stage of wyoDesktop is finished
("http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=tasks.html"). So if
you aren't happy with this, help that this stage is reached as soon as possible.

IMO this is a fair deal we both can live with. The resources of
wyoDesktop is sufficient but still limited, so the goal has to be set
accordingly. I cannot take over any responsibility for anything unless
the resources are available. Please don't complain and understand that.

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O. Wyss

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