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[Gcl-devel] Re: Garnet?
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Thomas F. Burdick |
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[Gcl-devel] Re: Garnet? |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:54:08 -0800 |
C Y address@hidden wrote:
>
> --- Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Greetings! Well, I've never heard of it before. I looked it up,
> > and it seems interesting, but is no longer supported by its
> > authors. There may be one volunteer working on it. Why would you
> > want to use this instead of Tcl/Tk? Would you like to volunteer
> > to try and build it? If it is useful to you and others and is not
> > too much work, we'll try to make sure it works under gcl. It
> > would seem though as if it is relatively unused.
>
> The advantages this has over TCL/TK are that it is apparently
> implimented in lisp itself, if I understand what it is correctly. I
> found it when I was investigating options for a Maxima gui. It looks
> to be too much work to be worthwhile, particularly since it doesn't
> currently run on Windows. I was curious if anyone here knew more about
> it, but I concur it appears mostly dead. I doubt I'll be able to try
> building it anytime soon.
I wouldn't call Garnet dead. CMU isn't developing it anymore, but
it's a pretty complete product (does anyone complain that Motif is
stagnant?). There is still a user base (I'm one of it). There's just
not much to do to it besides fight bit-rot, though. Once its
Motif-like look-and-feel starts looking old, it'll need to be updated
to whatever the new modern look is. But really, I think "stable" is a
better way to characterize it than "dead". And a Windows port would
be great :)
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