[TOPIC SPLIT] Development progress and direction

[Ryo]

One other issue is that we are currently working on too many clients, with too many different parts.

We should use *one* toolkit, and use that as a sane base.

I must say SDL could be used (even though it's updated every 10 years or so), or something else (ClanLib? haven't tried it).

But I would *definitely* not use GTK, since it's a real pain...

Our requirements should be to have a cross-platform toolkit, though, of course

So maybe making a small abstraction layer, and working primarily with a SDL output, but letting people substitute for something else?

[Rednaxela]

So maybe making a small abstraction layer, and working primarily with a SDL output, but letting people substitute for something else?

Personally I think this would be a good method to use provided we can design the abstraction layer robustly enough to allow it to work for gtk, macosx, and win32, at some point.