Re: Idea for backend maintainers: "reversal of roles"

From: "Magnus Lie Hetland" <[email protected]>
> > In general IMO it is never a good idea to distribute a piece of user
visible
> > functionality that a project does not mantain, because one will get
complains
> > and questions that then should be redirected ...
>
> Yup.

iow, if the main maintainers e.g. of wx become the maintainers of the wx
backend this thing could work, but otherwise simply moving a project will not
create maintainers by magic ...

at the moment we don't even have a fixed api


 > > We have already this problem with parts of PyXML in Jython, there
> > the added value make it meaningful and CPython also does this
> > redistribution, still it is painful.
> >
> > I think Anygui can choose to try to have just working backends for a
> > small subsets of toolkits (tk + swing + wx ...?), but shipping none
> > or just one is problematic ...
>
> You may be right.

All the actual target toolkits seem really too many,

0 or 1 are too few ...

I think we should pick 2/3 toolkit and try to get feature-complete 0.2 backends
for them.

If we cannot even do that then ...



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