[Glade-devel] Embedding glade in other applications (like IDE )

[pborelli katamail com (Paolo Borelli)]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:48, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> > It intalls in parallel with glade-2 so I don't think it's any 
> > problem if it's useless. By making a release you show more 
> > people that it needs their help and you show more people that 
> > it's near-enough finished that their help can take it that 
> > last few steps to being usable.
>
> I personally prefer to wait, mainly because there is already an app that
> does what glade-3 do (glade-2), so there is no much user benefit in having
> glade-3 in a packaged form.
>
> Now, all the latest work on glade-3 has been done by Paolo, and I don't want
> to impose my opinion on this point.  If he thinks that we're ready for a
> release, I don't see any real problem, as far as it's marked that it's alpha
> quality with big bold letters.

Well, it's clear that we are _not_ ready for a release in the meaning of
having an usable GUI designer. On the other hand if putting a tarball
out helps to attract some attention/developers I'm all for it.

Bottom line is: I don't have a strong opnion if it's better put out a
tarball or not and feedback from more experinced people would be very
welcome. In particular it would be very appreciated if someone not
biased could check out what's in cvs and *honestly* tell us if the
impression he gets is:

* "cool piece of work, but a bit immature but shows potential... I saw
this bug foobar, can you fix it?"

or

* "hey you told me to try it, but it sucks! I don't want to hear about
it in the next 5 years"

That is, what we want to do is attract developers not scare them away.


ciao
        paolo