On Mi, 2016-02-24 at 22:26 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Februar 2016, 23:42:24 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > > > > > > The reason why I suggested Vala instead of C++/gtkmm is that Vala > > > is a > > > 1:1 match to the GObject system, and while gtkmm code is > > > certainly > > > easier to write that pure GTK+/C code, they aren't really a > > > perfect > > > match. > > That does make sense indeed. On the other hand the current > > objective is the > > slowly migrate away from the GObject system, replacing it with true > > C++ OO. > > > > One important reason for that is portability to mobile platforms > > (think IOS, > > Android). Some time back it looked like glib/GObject was a major > > roadblock > > in that direction. I don't know whether it still is, but at the > > time that > > was one major driving factor to switch to C++. The future GUI > > toolkit will > > also be evaluated in that context. > I agree that porting from GObject to C++ is a step forward. However, > by now I > have my doubts whether that effort is actually well invested anymore. > Geert, > are you sure we said C++ would help in "portability to mobile > platforms"? For > an android app, it is useless to have "the engine" in C - one needs > it in Java > anyway, and that's why Ngewi wrote a re-implementation of our data > structures > in Java for his gnucash-on-android app. I don't think a plain C++(11) > plus > some boost dependencies would actually help anything when moving the > app to a > mobile OS. Instead, C++ just tries to make the further development of > the > desktop application somewhat more realistic. But there is just such a > large > amount of code... > > Regards, > > Christian I would say it looks like a lot to port right now, but there is a lot of code - the old register in particular - that could be removed moving forward, somewhat easing moving to C++.
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