# To subscribers of the xforms list from Angus Leeming <angus.leeming@btopenworld.com> :
On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:37 am, jac@casurgica.com wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from jac@casurgica.com :
> > I realise that there are still one or two bugs pending (I have a patch
> > from Rouben for the missing fl_lookup_RGBcolor() but am not sure which
> > file it should reside in...) but think that we are pretty close to
> > having something that can be released as xforms 1.1.
>
> I don't know about that. There's still these:
>
> 1) The event backing up thing with fl_check_forms().
> 2) The tabfolder horizontal position bug.
> 3) The laggy form resize bug.
> 4) The secret input caret bug.
> 5) The secret input focus bug.
>
> And probably more. And I'd help out and write some patches but I'm not
> going to have any time to do that, at least not until after the middle of
> August. But I honestly don't think that it's ready for a minor version
> increment...
The rationale of Open Source is "release often". I don't think it matters if
we don't fix all known bugs each time. That would be "release occasionally".
> Also, about changing library names and stuff. Angus seems to know what's
> up with the backward compatibility thing. It is *very* important that
> xforms remains backwards compatible. At my company, we have literally
> hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines of code and about 80-90
> libraries and applications that all rely on the headers and libs being the
> way they are now, and about 95% of our stuff uses the forms GL extensions.
> We'd like to stay up to date with xforms because of all the bugs that are
> being squashed out, but we can't do that if something silly happens like a
> header name being changed and the old one removed, or having to deal with
> libraries being renamed.
Agreed.
I would still like to release what we have soon. There have been lots of
changes, but most of the work has focussed on migrating away from Imake. So,
if it builds it should be safe. That, I think, is very important.
Angus
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