Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> > Bad thing is - GTK+ 1.3 (which'll be released as GTK+ 2.0
> > when final) won't be back-compatible. Preloading the new
> > libraries before old applications does no good, and OWen
> > said every application would have to undergo atleast
> > some minor changes to use GTK+ 2.0.
>
> nothing is ever perfect from day one, and sometimes to improve a product
> you must break backwards compatibility. Bill Gates have yet to
> understand it.
>
> BTW, I'm still in the dark about why not use OO for libraries such as
> this (Graphic toolkits).
>
OO != c++.
gtk is written in C, but is built around fairly OO design.
on the other hand, qt is written in c++.
>
> Anyone interested in working on such a library? a c++ toolkit
> from-scratch? there's an Israeli startup taking on Gnome/Gtk, Eazel and
> Helix together with a GPL kit of their own, and they are looking for
> people.
>
well, not me:)
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