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kettle11 / kapp

A pure Rust window and input library for Windows, Mac, and Web. (Work in progress)
Apache License 2.0
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Project Goals for Portability #52

Closed lunabunn closed 3 years ago

lunabunn commented 3 years ago

The README states:

kApp strives to be unsurprising, quick to build, and straightforward to maintain.

Now, of course at this point in time kapp is nowhere near as production-ready/battletested as SDL2, winit/glutin, etc. However, to me it's unclear if it's a project goal in the first place to eventually be production-usable. To me, an unsurprising, production-usable windowing library is one that "just works" on Windows XP+ & OSX Mountain Lion+ or something along those lines. Will kapp ever fit that bill or does it have a smaller scope in mind? Clarifications in the README would be appreciated.

kettle11 commented 3 years ago

Good question.

I think it is an eventual goal to be production-ready, but it's a lot of work so I've spread it out over a long period of time.

on Windows XP+ & OSX Mountain Lion+ or something along those lines

To keep the scope manageable I've only worked to support the latest versions of each OS. My goal has been to get kapp to a point of consistency and quality across the latest Windows / latest MacOS / and modern browsers, and then evaluate other platforms. You're right that should be called out in the README.

However if issues come up for older versions that are trivially fixed (without massive hacks or code complications) then I have no opposition to fixing them.

lunabunn commented 3 years ago

Makes sense, those are fair goals! Love the work you've been doing and super hyped to use it for a lil' 2d game engine deal I'm planning on. Keep up the good work 👍

Will leave this open as a reminder that the README might need some more info. Please feel free to close it whenever as you see fit.

kettle11 commented 3 years ago

Love the work you've been doing and super hyped to use it for a lil' 2d game engine deal I'm planning on.

I'm super excited to see that! It's really gratifying to hear that my work is helpful to others, especially since I've been chipping away at this relatively incognito for a while.

Thanks for the kind words!