From: Tristan Wibberley <twibberley@llamacom.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 16:31:47 +0000

Re: GWT name conflict.

mentalg@geocities.com wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > While browsing linuxprogramming.com, I came across a GUI toolkit based
> > around Java AWT, and it's called GWT (Gadget Windowing Toolkit -
> > remarkably similar to General Windowing Toolkit). It's at version 2.2
> > (compared to our 0.1 experimental ;)
> >
> > You can get details at:
> >
> > http://www.dtai.com/products/gwt/index.html
> >
> > Their scope is at a higher level of abstraction than our GWT, but it is
> > a similar enough field to cause problems.
> >
> > So, since Rodolphe is away, I am bringing this to the list straight away
> > with no ideas. Can we hold off deciding on changes until Rodolphe
> > returns though? 'cos I don't want to go behind his back even if the
> > whole list agrees on a solution.
> 
> Oh dear.  I suppose we're going to have some fun renaming the directory in
> CVS ... :/

I don't think we need worry about being able to get older versions. The
thing in CVS is better than anything that's been in CVS before, so
there's no problem there. I'll just have to avoid making any important
changes for a while.

> Hrm.  Anyway, LibGWI looks safe ... (General Windowing Interface) ... how
> about that?  (better fits the LibG[A-Z]I convention anyway)

Sounds good for me, I never liked 'toolkit' anyway, it makes it sound
like a set of X widgets (I got a couple of queries to do with that).

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