Re: more precise formulation

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 02:55 -0800, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Also, even if we don't go with LP in the end, using it now will make
> it easier to play with different constraining policies until we find
> one that's intuitive.

As fun as it sounds, can we stick to stuff that Just Works (tm).  We've
spent a lot of time with Ibex already implementing fun and different
things.  We need to concentrate on getting things to a releasable stage
so Ibex can be taken seriously.

I'm not saying this won't work, but we need to settle on something that
can be used to develop with.

I've already implemented a working, usable grid layout (patches are on
ct.com/darcs/ibex) and next will have to make non-packed layout work
properly.  After that I'm just concentrating on getting a set of usable
widgets (most of the underlying library work is now complete).

The problem with Ibex and XWT is that it's cool.  This makes people
interested but it makes us lot interested in adding cool stuff.  Enough
cool stuff please.  We're already cool enough.

Let's make it work and get a community of people using it, then we can
pack the following stable release with all this extra cool stuff.

I know we'll have to deal with some boring bits in the process (how long
has the error reporting bug been open and p1?) but if we want to ever be
taken seriously then we have to produce a defining product.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Online @ http://www.charlietech.com