Re: Info about color-values need be revised

[David Reitter]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:47 PM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> As I've been saying, the alpha component support in the NS port should
> have been removed in the first place.
>
> Does anyone oppose doing that (again) in the trunk?
>
> Also, we can observe that users tend to spread (*) such an eye candy
> feature without caring about various compatibility issues or the GNU
> policy.  That's why it was important to get rid of such a feature from
> the release version.

You were right about these things for the release, but as for the  
trunk, could people please consider the alternative:

Adding transparency to the other platforms where the APIs support it  
easily, and creating Lisp-level compatibility for transparency in the  
color specification.   -?

It is no surprise that folks roll their own if the mothership is so  
far behind the times with such features.  And people do it on those  
platforms first where it is easy because the right OS layer provides  
APIs for it; especially if the platform is so popular.    And once  
people like me add their own features, they get used, and the Lisp  
APIs diverge.  What has the purposeful GNU policy achieved then?


ps:  Nota bene: You personally are not the tree up which I am barking  
when it comes to lack of implementation activity...