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

Samuele Pedroni <[email protected]>:
>
[snip]
> 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 ...

Indeed.

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

True.

[snip]
> 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.

Yes. The number isn't reall _that_ much higher than this. Some
back-ends are just pipe dreams at the moment (htmlgui), some are more
gimmicky than essential (e.g. textgui :) -- some are not gimmicky, but
still not _that_ central, due to their narrow appeal (e.g. beosgui).
Supporting java, wx, tk, qt, gtk and msw doesn't seem excessive to me.

> If we cannot even do that then ...

Yes -- until we have something that actually works most of this is
really moot.

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland               "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." 
http://hetland.org                                   -- Indiana Jones


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