Re: How active is development?

Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel <[email protected]>:
>
>         Hi!
> 
[snip]
>         However, the curses gui on anygui is much cruder than what I had in
> mind (think Perl Curses::Widgets, which is what the project originally
> used).

Yes, well, the curses back-end is actually a full simulation of a GUI,
with movable windows and so forth. Not at all what one would expect
from a normal curses application.

We've been talking about writing a back-end which only is a "logical"
equivalent, and that doesn't actually use the full coordinates etc.,
but I don't think it'll happen any time soon.

> Anyway, I was all set to write a curses widgets module for python,
> but maybe I could improve anygui's curses one (or perhaps write a different
> anygui backend for more complex curses).

Maybe. You'd have to consider how you'd specify the logical structure
of your GUI, so that it could be displayed in the other back-ends but
still be amenable to standard curses use. I guess it could be
possible.

Another possibility is that you write another front-end which has two
back-ends: Curses and Anygui. :)

>         But, of course, that depends on how active anygui development is. I
> saw the notice on http://anygui.sf.net about Magnus's PhD, but I have no
> idea when it's due,

Actually, I'm defending my thesis on thursday... However, I can't give
any guarantees that I'll have much more free time next semester :]
One of my plans for the near future (for Anygui) is to write some
up-to-date documentation, which should (hopefully) make it easier to
do any small development tasks one might be inclined to do in the
future.

> or if he intends to keep developing anygui when he's done, or even
> if there are other developers.

In theory, there are. Not sure how many of the developers still have
time for the project, as there hasn't been much going on here lately.
I still have hopes for a complete release based on the current code in
CVS, but I don't know when it'll happen. It may be that I get into
the spirit at one time or another and just whip together an alpha
release over a weekend or something -- who knows?

> Also, the latest message archived for this list dates from August.

Indeed. There hasn't been any steady development for quite a while.
Too bad things petered out before we actually got to a second release;
I guess I/we were perhaps a bit ambitious.

But I do think there is still hope... (But then again, I may be a bit
optimistic in the matter ;)

>         So, how's anygui doing? :)
> 
>         Please Cc: me as I haven't (yet) joined the list.

Right. If you want to post without going through me (moderator) you
have to subscribe. Just a spam thing.

>         Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
>                 rbp

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland           "The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
http://hetland.org            but a fire to be lighted."  [Plutarch]


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