[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Subclassing SWT widgets

["Nick Evgeniev" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I don't know why, but patch accepting/problem diagnosing takes too much time
for SWT team in comparison to linux...
I don't blame on you, it's just a thoughts in a loud. What developers need
is a dynamic product. SWT is not such case, though that doesn't mean it's a
bad library, it just requires a momentum.

I think that all SWT and SWT community (and finally eclipse too) will win if
SWT becomes a separate product w/o strong relations to eclipse.

<Steve_Northover@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:atq3j7$tss$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> .. or
>
> 1) Join the open source effort, understand the issues, become a comitter,
change the class to do what you want, maintain and port
> your code
> 2) Don't attempt to add functionality to classes you don't own (whose
> implementation can change, that are different on different platforms)
> 3) Go ahead and copy/hack the class and be thankful that you can do this