[crossfire] Re: Crossedit patches

[Mark Wedel]

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      And so says Kevin Rudat on 21/08/05 14:26...
     
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     On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 09:53:43PM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
     
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     On the one hand, crossedit is basically obsoleted, so I don't want to 
     
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     spend a bunch of time and resources maintaining it.
     
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     On the other, if people want to do so, who am I to say don't do it.
     
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     I was thinking/hoping you'd say something like that. =)
     
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      Personally, I like crossedit better.  May be my allergy to all things
     
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      java in general.  If you want to maintain it, more power to you.  If you
     
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      want to re-do it in gtk2, I might even step up to help.
     
     
  I wonder how much is also force of habit - took me a while (and some code 
changes) to get the java editor to the point I was willing to use it.

  That said, java is very portable, so easier for those non unix people to use it.

  I suppose a gtk client would be easier to make to a windows port.  And while 
one side of me would sort of like the speed and efficiency of such an editor, 
one side of me says I really don't want to see another such editor due to the 
maintenance and support headaches it would involve (support for the deprecated 
crossedit is headache enough).

  That said, doing a gtk client probably wouldn't be really hard - layout could 
be done with glade, and the fact it would be C would mean it can basically 
re-use a lot of existing code (load/save code, display logic from client, etc). 
  But that's really not a road I'd want to see resources spent.