[Rkward-devel] To the new subscribers

[Thomas.Friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de]

Hi!

First of all, welcome to rkward-devel. Since the archives seem to 
be a bit slow, I'll post again the question about how RKWard 
should be continued. I'd appreciate if you could post your opinion 
on this.
Basically, the choice is between remaining a KDE/Qt-project and 
fusioning with the obveRsive-project (which would then switch to 
the FOX toolkit).
The first has the advantage, that a really seamless integration with 
KOffice(-components) will be a lot easier to achieve, and in general, 
RKWard will have the look and feel of KDE. I'd say however, that 
this would only make sense, if at least two more Qt/KDE/C++-
coders join the project (of course statisticians, R-experts and 
documentation-writers are also needed).
The second alternative has the advantage, that it will be cross-
platform compatible and that it would already have three developers 
working on it.
So the question is, whether some of you could imagine contributing 
code to RKWard (and if so, how much), and also of course, which 
alternative you would prefer.
Of course, whichever the decision may be, we might at a later point 
of time still decide to join with obveRsive or to revive RKWard, but 
I'd be interested in reaching a decision within about the next week, 
so the actual work on the application can continue as soon as 
possible.
Thanks!

Thomas