Re: [AD] 4.3.0 progress

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On 2006-07-22, Chris <chris.kcat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 06:50, Peter Wang wrote:
> > I would be nice if some other people tested it as well before then.
> 
> It won't compile with --enable-strictwarn on my Linux machine, using GCC 4.1. 
> It complains about possibly using an uninitialized struct in 
> src/compat/cotimer.c (even though it really can't). The attached patch fixes 
> that. It then complains about type-punning in grabber.c, but this isn't 
> easilly fixable with how the code is all structured.

Thanks.

> Given that the GUI is probably going to be removed from the new API, I don't 
> think grabber can stay around as it is. A (possibly radical) idea might be to 
> just remove the current grabber (4.2's could be used in the mean time), and 
> make a completely new grabber using Qt4. It's cross-platform almost 
> everywhere, free for non-commercial use, will look like a native Windows app 
> in Windows, will look good in X, etc. Checks could be done to see if it's 
> installed on the user's system and build the grabber if so.

I would like to move the datafile related code into an addon, so the
grabber should go with it.  Anyone can write whatever frontend they
like: datedit.c just needs to be made into a proper library.

Peter





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