[jsword-devel] RCP/SWT

[Aleksander Rozman]

Hi !

Sorry to add my opinion so late.

Before doing any serious refactoring of whole project, there should be 
some things done.

1. Full working release of project, with everything so far done (for 
example version 1.0)

2. When going in refactoring everything should be moved to new version 
(2.x) and stating this in all releases. And also creating TAG in CVS 
release so that old version can be retrieved (why see point 3).

3. SWT is part of Eclipse, and while Eclipse works on most of existing 
platforms, SWT does not. SWT works 100% on Windows and Linux, but on 
other platforms it doesn't, at least not all versions and not fully (SWT 
1, SWT 2 are little bit older version and since they have been out for 
long time, they became suported, SWT 3 still has a lot of problems on 
most of platform). I know this as a fact, since SWT 3.1 support (in 
Eclipse 3.1) in FreeBSD (which I also use beside Win) was added just 
recently and NOT into Eclipse but as separate entity. I imagoine that 
the same problems are with Mac and Sun system, and others.

Andy