On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:25:07PM +0000, Karsten Witzman wrote:
While this mail is meant as a follow-up to http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/pipermail/dillo-dev/2011-January/007943.html, I'd first like to tell you that I'm neither a Dillo nor an FLTK developer, but reading the mails from the archive in this discussion thread got me the impression that Dillo uses FLTK 2.0 internally and that it is intended to switch to 1.3.
I wonder if this would actually make sense with respect to an anticipated FLTK 3.0, which, following links from the FLTK project website (http://www.fltk.org/) to the FLTK 3 proposal (http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L1031) and from there to the more detailed explanations' (http://www.fltk.org/links.php?LC+P402+Q) section 2 (http://www.fltk.org/links.php?V404+Q), is described as build on the FLTK 2 API with FLTK 1.3 interna for stability in the last paragraph of the aforementioned text section.
I'd like to restate that I have no idea in which ways Dillo and FLTK are actually connected, but it looks to me like it would be a good idea for Dillo developers to check what's planned with FLTK 3 and perhaps get in contact with FLTK developers on this before switching Dillo code based on FLTK 2 to FLTK 1.3, if the only reason for that is to base Dillo code on an API that will see support in the future.
Point taken. I'll get in contact with them. The background is: they've changed plans several times. We got in very close contact before going with F2, and they said it was to be released real soon (as now with F1.3 and F3). Five years later F2 is dead and we're out of distros. At some point they reached consensus and decided to push F1.3 forward, and it's being moving at good pace. Hopefully with a release in this quarter. I agree that having F3 with F2's API would be the best. The doubt is when will this happen if ever. -- Cheers Jorge.-