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Re: Efforts to attract more users?
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Efforts to attract more users? |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:01:42 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:24:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> > >>> But wxwidgets is ancient, clunky, and bloated, and not something Emacs
> > >>> should be depending on lightly.
> > >> I will not pretend to know anything about it but the latest release is
> > >> from 2010-04-23.
> > > I don't mean it's not maintained.
> > No I am getting curious. You obviously know more than me about this.
> > Why do you say wxWidget is ancient? (This is a little bit funny to use
> > the word "ancient" here when Emacs is so old ;-)
> > I know people have had negative opinions about it here before. It
> > looked to me some of it was based on experience, but I am not sure.
> According to their docs, wxWidgets is for C++, not for C, so Emacs
> cannot use it.
In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we
could use wxWidgets.
(Hey, it's over 35 degrees (of the Celsius variety) here in Nuremberg;
this doesn't encourage high quality hacking. I'm kind of wondering how
far over Europe this blanket of smothering heat extends.)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Emacs learning curve (was Re: Efforts to attract more users?), (continued)
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/09
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Miles Bader, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Miles Bader, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Miles Bader, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Lennart Borgman, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?,
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- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, John Yates, 2010/07/11
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Richard Stallman, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Stephen Eilert, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Bernardo Barros, 2010/07/12
- Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/12
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