[wx-discuss] aspects of a safe future continued...

[Stefan Csomor]

Hi
> Yes, the classical "Circulus vitiosus". The people which
> want to see radical changes don't take part, because they
> believe that current development is going nowhere (-good);
> and those doing the work hang on to what they do (did)...
>   
in open source / no funding setups these situations are difficult to 
handle, especially if we also feel being obliged to support the people 
that are currently already using wx and needing fixes for their problems 
NOW. Next year it'll be 10 years I'm writing wxMac, I'm forty now. 
Having worked with frameworks like MacApp before and admiring NextStep 
in its 3 golden tomes - there were always  things I missed dearly, on 
the other hand wx had such a broad functionality that had to be 
implemented for a port. I never found enough time to attack both, 
improve wxMac AND start prototyping my ideas about wxTNG, being 
self-employed allows of course to invest a considerable amount of time, 
but at the end of a year deeply red figures aren't very healthy...

In my eyes wx needs a better ecosystem to thrive. Most of the OSS I'm 
aware of that are broad and healthy over many years has either a dual 
licensing scheme or a big company's pockets that support it. 
Unfortunately a few years ago all our dreams about a brighter future 
thanks to Borland crashed on the harsh land of reality.

So in my view wx needs to trim itself and focus on GUI providing 
wrappers for 'foreign' libraries like curl etc. - removing these 
implementations from our source. To me the situation is a little bit as 
if we'd live in a big nice old castle, great but in need of some support 
and renovation work, we work hard, but without finding a chest with a 
few golden nuggets we won't even be able to keep it in the current 
shape. So perhaps it's time to move to a smaller location ...

just my 0.02$

Stefan



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