X-Git-Url: http://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fworklog.md;h=379d3fcfe8a04721b3b777a0a6566516386fa346;hb=91c2f66ef49c23fa1d6fa5ad263b5a1fd9c158cf;hp=89cbef56b2e1876f3bd6d9c407f915aad2323aad;hpb=55d2b2c2b29ce51f4f910448a115073371deeae8;p=nikiroo-utils.git diff --git a/docs/worklog.md b/docs/worklog.md index 89cbef5..379d3fc 100644 --- a/docs/worklog.md +++ b/docs/worklog.md @@ -1,6 +1,42 @@ Jexer Work Log ============== +March 21, 2017 + +I am starting to gear up for making Jexer a serious project now. I've +created its SourceForge project, linked it back to GitHub, have most +of its web page set up (looks like Qodem's), and released 0.0.4. And +then this morning saw an out-of-bounds exception if you kill the main +demo window. Glad I marked it Alpha on SourceForge... + +Yesterday I was digging around the other Turbo Vision derived projects +while populating the about page, and made a sad/happy-ish realization: +Embarcadero could probably get all of them shut down if it really +wanted to, including Free Vision. I uncovered some hidden history in +Free Vision, such that it appears that Graphics Vision had some +licensed Borland code in it, so there might be enough mud in the air +that Free Vision could be shut down the same way RHTVision was. But +even worse is the SCOTUS ruling on Oracle vs Google: if APIs are +copyrighted (regardless of their thoughts on fair use), then any +software that matches the API of a proprietary project might find +itself subject to an infringement case. So that too could shut down +the other API-compatible TV clones. + +Fortunately, Jexer (and D-TUI) is completely new, and has no API +compatibility with Turbo Vision. Jexer could be a new root to a whole +generation of TUI applications. + +March 18, 2017 + +TStatusBar is working, as is "smart" window placement. Overall this +is looking quite nice. Found a lot of other small paper cut items and +fixed them. It looks absolutely gorgeous on Mac now. + +Tomorrow I will get to the public wifi and get this uploaded. + +Time to call this 0.0.4 now though. We are up to 32,123 lines of +code. + March 17, 2017 Jexer is coming back to active development status. I had a lot of