Posted by MartinG on September 18, 2003 at 10:35:44:
In Reply to: Re: Move UAE and Winuae to sourceforge.net??? posted by Jonathan on September 18, 2003 at 01:18:13:
: If you can do these things you will make a lot of people happy :-)
(1) and (2) are just about done.
The first part of (3) is also (ie, getting it to compile and run against GTK2)
In other words, I have started with all the easy bits. :-) I'ts hardly an improvement at this stage. From a user perspective the changes are:
1) (for linux users) uses GTK2 insead of GTK1
2) (for users of all other OS) It doesn't work any more.
Clearly, all the important stuff is still to do.
Many will ask - Why bother dumping all the non SDL backends? Why not just improve the GTK gui and do all the other things?
The reason is that I see a lot of it as cruft, and I have a natural urge to clean up and reduce complexity. My feeling is that the vast majority of users are catered for by SDL, and removing the other possible codepaths will also help in optimising and debugging the remaining one.
Anyway, I'm undecided yet which makes most sense to do first out of:
a) improve the GTK gui.
b) ensure i can compile and run on multiple platforms. (at least linux and win32 for now - more in future)
They are probably fairly orthogonal actually. The only bit I don't know how to do yet is portably embed a sdl display in a gtk+ window. My feeling is that part will need a little bit of special code for each platform.
Cheers,
Martin.