Re: Some questions about contributing

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On 19 January 2011 10:29, Reinhard Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. A GUI client for
> what? How would it differ from the current gnue-forms?
>

Back in the early 2000's, of course, there were several different clients
for GNUe Forms being discussed. The theory was that the "official" GNUe
Forms was just "an" implementation of a GNUE Forms client - the reference
implementation, if you like. But other clients could be written as well. It
seemed a fairly regular event for people to suggest on the mailing list or
in IRC a new GUI client for whatever the latest "flavour of the month" was.
No doubt if the same were true today, people would be suggesting iPhone or
XBox 360 clients...

Of the ones that actually saw some development, I remember Win32, PHP, HTML,
QT and KDE. But, back in 2006, the decision was taken to concentrate on just
two clients going forwards, the main wx-python GUI version, and the non-GUI
Curses version for people still using text-only terminals. (
http://web.archive.org/web/20071110122643/www.kerneltraffic.org/GNUe/gnue20060320_108.html#8
)

Of course, this being a free software project, there's nothing to stop
people going off and developing their own clients. And, if the results are
interesting enough, I'm sure we'd all like to see them. But people just need
to be aware that there's a certain amount of history behind the decision to
focus mainly on wx-python.

-- 
Peter Sullivan <[email protected]>

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On 19 January 2011 10:29, Reinhard Mueller <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt =
0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex=
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I&#39;m not sure I understand what you are trying to do. A GUI client for<b=
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what? How would it differ from the current gnue-forms?<br></blockquote><div=
><br>Back in the early 2000&#39;s, of course, there were several different =
clients for GNUe Forms being discussed. The theory was that the &quot;offic=
ial&quot; GNUe Forms was just &quot;an&quot; implementation of a GNUE Forms=
 client - the reference implementation, if you like. But other clients coul=
d be written as well. It seemed a fairly regular event for people to sugges=
t on the mailing list or in IRC a new GUI client for whatever the latest &q=
uot;flavour of the month&quot; was. No doubt if the same were true today, p=
eople would be suggesting iPhone or XBox 360 clients...<br>
<br>Of the ones that actually saw some development, I remember Win32, PHP, =
HTML, QT and KDE. But, back in 2006, the decision was taken to concentrate =
on just two clients going forwards, the main wx-python GUI version, and the=
 non-GUI Curses version for people still using text-only terminals. (<a hre=
f=3D"http://web.archive.org/web/20071110122643/www.kerneltraffic.org/GNUe/g=
nue20060320_108.html#8">http://web.archive.org/web/20071110122643/www.kerne=
ltraffic.org/GNUe/gnue20060320_108.html#8</a>)<br>
<br>Of course, this being a free software project, there&#39;s nothing to s=
top people going off and developing their own clients. And, if the results =
are interesting enough, I&#39;m sure we&#39;d all like to see them. But peo=
ple just need to be aware that there&#39;s a certain amount of history behi=
nd the decision to focus mainly on wx-python.<br>
<br>-- <br>Peter Sullivan &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">psu@b=
urdonvale.co.uk</a>&gt;<br></div></div>

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