#Incompatibility
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The argument wasn't on whether to include or not ASL, everybody was very
happy with the fact that it will help AMiga developers provide a
consistent user-interface. The talk wasn't a fight, but it very quickly
degenerated in a "I want this and that" kind of thing. Quite useless
discussion as a whole.
What exactly does ASL.library stand for? I assume its not arithmetic
shift left! What new functions will it have, besides a standard file
requester.
"Application Support Library". It should have a general-purpose toolbox to
help you build a standard looking interface re gadgets and menus. The file
requester will use this tookbox for example. It'll also probably have a
font and color requester.
Um, nope, no general purpose toolbox in ASL. File and font requesters are
definite. Color requester is pending but may go elsewhere. ASL will use
standard looking interface either taking advantage of ROM functions, or
discreetly, but the callouts if there are any will probably not be in ASL.
ASL.library is decidedly not a "mixed bag" of functions … though a lot of
folks have made suggestions about things that would turn it into a mixed
bag, at present it is defined as file requester, font requester, and list
requester … with nothing else in there. The code I turn over to
Commodore as ASL.library will probably have these three callouts, and
nothing more … other things are likely to get added in there,
particularly if the ROM gets tight and some of the functions scheduled for
dos.library would otherwise have to be shelved, but AARP'ers won't have the
"mixed bag" argument to kick around with ASL from the work I'll do on it.