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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX


From: Alvaro Tejero Cantero
Subject: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:20 +0200

And TeXmacs has a smaller developer community...

Á.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok ... how can I help to improve the mac port?
>>>
>>
>> the port is in a very early stage. My first goal has been to implement
>> roughly the basic stuff, also to get acquainted with the source code. Joris
>> has made a very nice work in separating the different layers of the GUI and
>> it has been not so difficult to make TeXmacs run natively under cocoa.
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry in advance for my interruption in this list. I am a core developer of
> LyX and I would like to share my experience with you. Please, take it this
> way or simply ignore me if this advice sounds inappropriate.
>
> FYI, LyX has made the same mistake you are doing now with the so called "GUI
> independence project". At one point of time we had four frontends (xforms,
> Qt3, Qt4 and Gtk), I can assure that this was sucking an awful lot of energy
> and that was the main reason why the LyX GUI stagnated for *years* because
> every little change to the interface needed to be propagated to the four
> frontends. Now that we decided to concentrate on one frontend and that we
> eliminated the indirection introduced by the GUII project, things are moving
> faster than ever at user interface level.
>
> So, IMNSHO, you should concentrate on one cross-platform graphical toolkit.
> Don't get me wrong, it's a very good idea to separate the core code from the
> GUI code but wasting energy on multiple frontends is not. Of course,
> everybody is free to do what he/she wants but, if you want Texmacs to
> evolve, that's not the right way IMO. There are a number of cross-platform
> toolkits available, you should just pick one (Qt, Gtk, Java, etc). I can
> assure you that the user won't see the difference between a Cocoa app and a
> Qt/Mac app, really.
>
> Side note: I don't see Texmacs as a competitor for LyX, they just fill
> different niches. And I am not interested in competition anyway :-) Actually
> I think there is a lot of room for collaboration between the two projects.
>
> Sorry again if my post seems arrogant, that was not the intention, I just
> couldn't resist to share my LyX experience with you :-)
>
> Regards,
> Abdel.
>
> PS: I am not sure if I need to subscribe in order to post so I put some
> people in copy, hope you don't mind.
>
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