[CF-Devel] server 1.6.0?

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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:44:02 -0600
Brian Angeletti <
     
     EmperorBMA at cox.net
     
     > wrote:

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      Relevant opinion to this discussion:
     
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      The most useful thing we could do to increase stability on Windows (and 
     
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      everything else for that matter) would be to focus on using GTK 2.0 or 
     
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      SDL exclusively.  It would behoove us to look into focusing all our 
     
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      client coding resources on one client instead of keeping the current 
     
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      divide, since portability will be *MUCH* easier if we don't have to 
     
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      fight with several different code bases and above all it will make 
     
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      designing for the client very much simpler.
     
     
In my opinion, I kind-of like that divide, because there are certain things you can do with an SDL-only client that you can't do with GTK per se. Although these days I hear you can use GTK to render to a frame buffer, an SDL-only client would probably be faster on an older system than the GTK client, so there are a lot of arguments for or against either side.

There are advantages to having all the resources focused on one client:
	* Bugs would get fixed faster 
	* Things would be implemented faster
	* etc.

But, there are certain advantages to having the SDL client:
	* It's faster on older systems 
	* It requires less to compile
	* It's portable to platforms that GTK may not be


Those are my 2 cents :P,

Tim

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