Re: Fox toolkit future?

On 24-Jun-23 05:32, Robert Butler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So Linus Torvalds and his Linux project is wrong, then?
> 
> What about the PHP, Python, and countless other large projects?
> 
> Microsoft saw at least some value in purchasing GitHub after all, 
> yeah?

Robert, as much as you are correct, this isn't how you convince people
of your point :-) I'm with you: git is the superior product to
Subversion and Perforce, and that has nothing to do with the
professionalism of the projects and developers that use it. When I see a
project on Sourceforge, my gut instinct is "oh, this is probably
abandoned, or they would have moved on", and it was the same for Fox
when I inherited this project I'm working on.

Github is a great collaboration platform, much more so than Sourceforge,
and you can take that from someone who has used all the version control
systems out there in his career, from the time I got my degree all the
way through a 30+ year career in software development.

I also fully support a move to CMake, for the reasons Devin named
(Visual Studio solution files!), and because it's becoming more and more
a standard in the world of open source build systems. GNU autotools are
an archaic system that's primarily used by those "hackers" that some
people seems so afraid of.

If Fox 1.7 is indeed ready to become stable, then yes, let's have a new
stable version. I'm still on 1.6 because last time I looked, it wasn't
worth the significant porting effort, and 1.7 was neither stable, nor
were there packages for any of the distros I'm interested in (probably
related to not being considered stable).

Enno.