'openamiga' is a joke!

[Karlos]

You can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but iamaboring person.... :-P

Look dude. If you want to write programs its totally up to you what you use. Maybe your code works on your machine fine.

Openamiga is aimed at people who want to get their programs working on the widening spectrum of amigaesque systems we have now.

I think the specs chosen are pretty sensible all things considered. There isn't anything there that excludes any 'current' systems from the standard.

I have some preferences that maybe differ (I'm not a big MUI fan) a bit but I'm sure every amiga programmer has his/her unique foibles. Overall its a very good comprimise.

I've not said anything about Open amiga yet nor have I made any contribution, but your derision at what is clearly a positive community effort has earned you my 'join in or f*ck off' award 2003. Congratulations :-)

[Karlos]

Perhaps a little OT:

One idea which I had many moons ago was to have an abstract GUI (a C++ design pattern) that would encapsulate MUI / Reaction behind a common OOP interface. A similar thing could be achieved in C too (function pointers are your friend ;-) ) - but its no secret I use C++ for everything...anyhow I digress.

The layer would then open either reaction or mui depending on which was available or on a user setting if both were.

Given the underlying commonality I don't think its such a bad idea but it makes it slightly tricky to take specific advantages of either GUI.