[GEM-dev] happy birthday!

[cyrille henry]

Le 22/11/2016 à 16:41, Jack a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Le 22/11/2016 à 16:08, Chris Clepper a écrit :
>> A friend of mine (aptly named John Camera) has started working on the
>> GEM code recently with a focus mainly on Windows.  He has updated some
>> of the build stuff and a few internals to make it build/run on Win10 and
>> latest VS.
>>
>> Also, he has expressed interest in attempting the GL ES port or looking
>> into WebGL.
>
> +1 openGL ES
> +2 webGL ;)

yes, it sound exiting!
My only concern is about development time: I think creating a release now and include this development for the next one (hopefully not in 5 years) is the way to go.

cheers
C


>
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:11 AM, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net
>> <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     hello
>>
>>     The last official Gem release is 5 year old today!
>>
>>     5 years is a lot's of time.
>>     I usually think a project is dead after 5 years with no release, but
>>     Gem is still alive.
>>     There are lot's of update / bugfixes / new feature / help patch etc
>>     I can see about 1800 commit in Iohannes github branch since 11 11 2011.
>>     there is also some merge request that are waiting to be include in
>>     this branch.
>>
>>     maybe it's time to think of a new release?
>>
>>     I know that a release is a lot's of work. And I don't know if anyone
>>     is still able to compile Gem for recent OSX, or windows.
>>     But without any release, users will disappear, and development will
>>     slowly fade away.
>>
>>
>>     So, is there something that need to be done before creating a new
>>     release?
>>     is it just a lack of time / motivation that prevent releasing?
>>     or just that Gem is now only for linux?
>>
>>
>>     What could be done to facilitate a new release?
>>     Or should I just send mails to Iohannes until he get bored and do
>>     all the job?
>>
>>     cheers,
>>     Cyrille
>>
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