Introduce the new term "Fork" at various relevant places
within the documentation. We do not entirely purge the
term "track" though; rather we
- make clear that "Fork" is the entity to build tracks
- use "fork" also synonymous to the "tree of tracks"
This switches the Lumiera UI from GTK-2 to GTK-3
Unfortunately, this move breaks two crucial features, which have been
disabled for now: the display of video and our custom timeline widget.
Since both of these require some reworking, which in fact has already
started, we prefer to do the library and framework switch right away.
There is a long-standing RfC which basically describes the
same idea on a much wider, conceptual scope. Indeed I consider
this approach used here for solving the problem with GUI uptades
also as a proof of concept, to be expanded to a much wider scope
in case it works out well.
The new insight here is, that, by transferring a diff in pull mode,
we can circumvent the architectural problems with typing, which
showed up quite clearly in earlier design studies towards this
concept. The change from push to pull is by far not so fundamental
as it looks, since the sender still may initiate the exchange
by sending a message offering the diff iterator for the receiver
to pull. This way, we get a handshake and still sustain the
crucial part, which is to decouple the data representation
and give the receiver full control over the interpretation
of the exchanged data.
Uniform sequence at start of source files
- copyright claim
- license
- file comment
- header guard
- lumiera includes
- library / system includes
Lumiera uses Brittish spelling. Add an according note to the styleguide.
initial draft of an RfC to discuss and define the
requirements for other parts of the application to relie on
note: this commit fixes a merge error; the RfC was lost
while combining documentation and code branches
* rfcs are now all stored in the rfc folder (formerly hold the final rfcs)
* a new rfc_final folder is created
* the state folders (rfc_final|pending|parked|dropped) now contain
symlinks back to the rfc pool
This reverts commit 65bae31de4103abb7d7b6fd004a8315973d3144a.
and reprocessed the wrapping.
Note that the automatic wrapping is not perfect, some manual fixing
by removing some hunks was required.
* new directory structure in doc/devel to take RFC's
rfc/ - Final RFC's
rfc_pending/ - Emerging RFC's
rfc_dropped/ - Rejected or Parked RFC's
* Template directory doc/template/ for just a rfc.txt
for creating new RFC's yet
* admin/rfc.sh a script to maintain RFC's
