[daisy] Sketch Editor

[Michael Hänni]

I think you have to contact Werner Randelshofer 
(http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=12679). I 
contacted him, as he seems to be the leading developer at the moment.

Karel Vervaeke schrieb:
> ps: I mailed one of the JHotdraw developers (Wolfram Kaiser) to ask
> their opinion on the matter.
>
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:28 +0200, Karel Vervaeke wrote:
>   
>> I really don't see the point that the authors of JHotdraw are making.
>> There are two alternatives:
>>
>> (a) use JHotdraw as a library.  If I want to make changes to the applet,
>> and I want to use the newest JHotdraw version (be it because of bugfixes
>> or because I want new features), I can do so and I will have no problem
>> changing my code to take JHotdraw API changes into account. 
>>
>> (b) copy JHotdraw source code into the applet code and compile from
>> there.  If I want to upgrade to the newest JHotdraw version, I have to
>> find out which files have changed, copy the relevant files over to the
>> applet.  If I make changes to the copied JHotdraw the next upgrade is
>> going to be horribly painful:  I need to merge changes from JHotdraw
>> proper with the copied JHotdraw code.
>>
>> There even is added value for the JHotdraw project: If I want to make
>> changes to JHotdraw in situation (a), I have to report my changes
>> (bugfixes, new features) and wait for the next release - everybody using
>> JHotdraw wins.  OTOH, if I make changes to JHotdraw in situation (b), 
>> those changes are much more unlikely to get shared with others (not that
>> I'm selfish, I just have much to do and am likely to move on after
>> fixing things.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Karel
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:04 +0200, Michael Hänni wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Karel
>>>
>>> I'm afraid you discovered a delicate problem.
>>> I contacted the developer of JHotDraw.
>>> He told me not to use JHotDraw as a library.
>>> He told me, that each update of JHotDraw would also require changes in 
>>> my code.
>>>
>>> A possible workaround would be to completely integrate the source files 
>>> of the classes I need from JHotDraw into my SektchApplet (The same way 
>>> you suggested in an earlier mail).
>>> This way JHotDraw would be built from source as part of building the 
>>> applet and there would not be a separate JHotDraw jar file. On the other 
>>> hand the Sketch applet jar would again contain both "ch.ergon.**" and 
>>> "org.jhotdraw.**" classes.
>>>
>>> Would this workaround be a possibility for you? Or can you think of 
>>> another solution?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Michael
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