1. Re: Win32libEx -- Richedit, common controls and MDI
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cuny"
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 10:18 PM
>...
> This is a very good thing, but and it's not really fair for me to simply
> grab other people's code and incorporate it into "David Cuny's" project.
On
> the other hand, I don't want people to have to choose, say, Matthew Lewis'
> distribution if they want one set of controls, and mine if they want
> another.
I agree. Although I don't think Matt's intent is to have a different set of
controls...
> I think that Win32Lib needs centralized management, to make sure that it
> stays fairly consistant and incorporate various changes and bug fixes.
That
> doesn't necessarily have to be me. Perhaps it's time to stop calling it
> "David Cuny's", start tracking individual contributions better, and put it
> into someone else's hands?
I think it's great to have somebody 'pick up' the project and add things
that should be there. Matt's doing some work that I've occasionally thought
about doing but never got around to. It seems my availability for side
projects is too inconsistent to manage such a beast but I'd certainly like
to help out (at least by testing). Matt seems to have a good focus on the
project at the moment but I still feel that it's your 'baby' and you should
at least be involved in such a way that development doesn't get out of
control. Some extensions to Win32Lib don't need to be *in* win32lib.ew and
I think that you should be the one to decide what kind of stuff need's to be
in the 'core' so that it doesn't grow up to be too obese. I know at one
time I suggested a few additions that you didn't think would fit into the
lib because they might not be easily implemented across other platforms
(i.e. Linux GUI's). I saw your point and was not bothered because the API
wrappers could *use* Win32Lib but they didn't need to be in it. I guess I'd
like to see a good fundamental set of Windows tools in Win32Lib (which is
already there) and extra fluff be external if possible (similar to how much
of Euphoria's functionality can controlled with a few extra 'includes'.)
Hmmm... is this what you where trying to do with Llama? Anyways, that's
just my opinion.
-- Brian
