On 11-Feb-99 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Roland> I have recently looked at wxwin/wxgtk again and it may solve
> Roland> the entire problem as it provides an interface to a variety of
> Roland> platforms. THey may never come up with a qt port as the qt
> Roland> license prohibits writing a wrapper around it. Anyway, they
> Roland> have ports to Win,Motif, Gtk and Mac... Wouldnt that be sweet
> Roland> Lyx native on the Mac....
>
> What's the price to pay in terms of code bloat and speed? I doubt that
> a cross platform tk could solve magically all our problems.
>
> JMarc
All Wxwin ports are native, so speed is not an issue, afaict.
Code bloat is something you will get anyway, either it's your own code
that is becoming bloatet, which means the maintenance problem is on you, or
it is the toolkit code thats bloatet, then the problem is on the toolkit
developers.
In a general move to push as much as possible lowlevel effort to libraries,
e.g. the STL effort, it would imho be smart to do the same with the GUI.
Still I personally prefer Qt over Wxwin because of the guaranteed
professional development and the maturity of Qt. But in order to be serious
about Open Source I tend to support Wxwin. After all Qt is not really free
for all platforms.
Jm2c
Roland
Roland Krause
Visiting Research Associate - Center for Computational Mechanics
Washington University, Saint Louis
Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
