Re: Cocotron

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

Helge Hess wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2006, at 03:00, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > > I can't follow that, it sounds like everyone is re-inventing GNUstep
> > > all the time. Which isn't the case. There is just one new project
> > > which popped up, and apparently also has a focus which GNUstep just
> > > doesn't have (Windows deployment).
> > GNUstep is all about deploying on as many operating systems as
> > possible, so I'm not certain what you're referring to.   GNUstep's
> > focus, as I have recently laid out, is that of a cross-platform API
> > which is usable on everything from Linux to Windows. The fact that
> > Windows isn't the only operating system that GNUstep is available on 
> > shouldn't be an issue.
>
> I'm not that much into developing-AppKit, but IMHO its a huge 
> difference whether you write AppKit just for Windows or whether you 
> also target X11 given that the two are vastly different. Personally I 
> would probably approach that by writing two entirely different AppKit 
> libraries instead of creating one huge monster abstracting away the 
> APIs inside yet another API ... (aka backends ;-)
I don't see if backend is anything to be described a huge monster. And 
it should  wrap
the layer below the native widget layer of a platform. Doing what you've 
described
will probably end up getting headache when you have to deal with 
WYSIWYG. The idea
of go entirely native widgets (well, you didn't say it) is usually from 
those who don't really
understand AppKit.



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 Banlu Kemiyatorn

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