ProgramVer — Roadmap

Direction, not a schedule. Defects are in internal/known-issues.md.

Where it is

A working template that does not currently run, because three files it opens are absent. Everything else — the layout, the customisation points, the resource resolution — is sound.

Considered

Restoring the missing files. imgs/dfdlogo.gif, LICENSE.txt, and EULA.txt. The first alone is the difference between a program that starts and one that does not.

A test that the resources exist. Four lines, no mocking, and it would have caught all three.

Defaults that match this repository. The window shows a GPL notice and another company's copyright while the repo is MIT — placeholder text that a tool for displaying licences should not ship.

Reading the version from package metadata rather than a hardcoded string, so a release bump reaches the window.

Fixing the packaging. package_dir={"": "imgs"} and find_packages(where="imgs") point at a directory with no packages.

Toplevel() for the licence and EULA windows instead of second Tk() roots.

Graceful degradation. A missing logo could render a placeholder and a missing licence file an explanatory message, rather than a traceback — for a template others will copy half-configured, that is friendlier than failing hard.

Non-goals

A configuration file. Editing the literals is the workflow; a schema for values a developer sets once would be more machinery than the component.

A GUI toolkit dependency. Tkinter is in the standard library, and staying there is what makes this safe to copy into any project.

Rich text or Markdown rendering. The licence is displayed as plain text in a Text widget. Rendering would mean a dependency, for a document nobody reads carefully in a dialog.

Becoming a general About-box framework. It shows version and licence information. Update checks, credits screens, and telemetry consent are all different things.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome — see the Contributing Guide or the Discord.

Adding imgs/dfdlogo.gif is the smallest change that turns this back into a working program.