Whilst and if the project remains abandoned, this testing period is over and their is no general release. In that circumstance, I feel duty bound to clean up that thread. I had no intention, personally, of removing any of its technical written content whatsoever - people can read about how gtkwialog would work till the end of time if they wanted to. But... now that murga-forum has taken absolute control of that thread they are leaving the above mentioned prealpha, not for general release, testing binaries available longterm, against my directions in above quoted paragraph from the first post of the thread.DOWNLOAD LINKS: Absolutely non-official but apparently stable/working, prealpha, downloads intended only for anyone interested in testing (usual disclaimers apply concerning suitability of purpose). Note that though I have removed prealpha in the name this is only provided to allow interested parties to test functionality. It is not to be considered a general release at this stage in any way:
Over time that could be perceived as 'distribution' by murga-forum who cannot fulfill what would be the GPL license requirement resulting from official release, which I have never made. Outside of that defined not for "general release" period, the binaries ought, in my opinion, be removed.
The thread should not have been locked, and Flash's comment is insufficient - my threat regarding intellectual property rights can be safely ignored, however; I was just upset that I was placed in a position where I had no control over my own work, particularly when the abandonment was possibly to be temporary (though the apparently 'sacred' nature of gtkdialog ground may make the continuation of public gtkwialog development culturally difficult).
EDIT: The locking action is, aside from the utterly small scale of this one project, like Microsoft taking control of GitHub; an organisation using power to take control over an author's previous freedom and creation rights on that site/thread. Bad, bad, bad.
Don't be ridiculous. (gtkwialog is the best approach thus far by a mile and it's going to get even better too)Flash wrote:Wiak seemed to imply that other approaches worked better than his and that's why he's abandoning his. I could have simply removed the thread rather than locking it, but failures have value.
The solution, whatever I chose to later do, is simply to unlock the thread. End of comment.
wiak