[wyoDesktop-devel] Re: [wxGuide-users] wyoeditor

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

> Jonas  () has submitted this feedback
> 
Thanks, this helps me to concentrate on the most important issues if I'm able.

> The editor works well in Windows. I use it all the time and am happy I found it. In Linux 
> however it has a tendency to crash and I regretfully decided not to use it. I have been 
> looking for an editor that behaves the same in windows and Linux for a long time ... :(
> 
I still use it on Linux because I haven't found anything better :-( .
BTW that was my first reason to create wyoEditor. Now it's also a
marketing item to show others how to write good applications.

Crashes in Linux are while most pressing unfortunately also something I
can't do much. Most (if not all) of these crashes are rooted within
wxWidgets and/or GTK+. All I can try is to see if the crashes are within
my sources or try to locate the problems within wxWidgets myself.
Saddening even if discover them they aren't fixed within wxWidgets, just
look at the patches I still have to put up. And most saddening if I only
can attribute it to wxWidgets, my bug reports are simply closed (see
"http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=998555&group_id=9863&atid=109863").
All I can do is hope that any crash is fixed by other means and leave it
to the user to submit bug reports. Very sorry :-((

> When I whent back to see if a newer version would solve the problem I found that the 
> dependencies where to something that would force me to manually upgrade some stuff
> and NO NOTE about that change in the release.
> 
I'm hard pressed to just look for the most important issue although I
spend _all_ my spare time for development (haven't played any doom for
years!). Caring for changelog doesn't have by far enough high priority,
you either have to look at the release statements at
"http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/" or walk through CVS. Of
course anyone else is welcomed to take over this task.

> Having control over the dependencies and installation is a thing the open-source still 
> fail in. This makes me sad since many projects are so good. I know there are many 
> people that thinks it\'s all right to download source and manually resolve dependencies, 
> build, install and configure software. But me and the many others that have a life and 
> whant to USE lots of good software will eventually fall back. This leaves many of the 
> projects only suitable to entusiasts. I see this as a great loss to us all....
> 
I see your point but sorry I've absolute _no_ time to care myself. I
also prefer to just USE instead of DEVELOP good software. I still hope
and do everything I can so we all are able to USE in a not too distant future.

> I wonder how many good projects die because of this lack shutting out a LARGE user-base
> ... and then similar projects are started again ... and fails again. Eventually no one thinks 
> the idea is good. But it is, they just fail to complete the delivery part, and decay is 
> introduced..
> 
As long as users don't take over their share of work this situation
won't change! See that I get much more time to care for all the issues a
normal user shouldn't be confronted. To solve exactly this issue I've
created the wyoDesktop project "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/" but
without your help, you have to wait some decades until you can USE it.

Why don't you start an OpenSource fan club which does some lobbying
- in newspapers and public forums to spread the news about wyoDesktop
- to attract others (developers and users) to participate as much as
they can
- to attract sponsors (companies and politicians) to solve resource problems
- at universities to enhance and enforce the wxGuide guidelines
- ...
so there is finally enough man power to take care for all the
outstanding issues.

> ... Good editor, barely usefull project.
> 
Thanks, what do you with "barely useful project".

O. Wyss

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See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"