On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> Hi!
Hello Asger!
> I've used it for a few things and can only say that it rocks your
> socks off. I think this is exactly what we need for the communication
> layer in the GUI indep-work. It's clean, fast, and very elegant
> if you ask me.
I've looked at the code and read the manual for it a couple of times on
the bus. So I agree it's exactly what we need.
> Regarding how to realize this goal: I'm wondering if we should try a
> small experiment after 1.1.5 is out: Include the latest XTL in the
> building step, and then apply the usual routine to work out what
> needs to be done to make the thing build on the various platforms.
I am intending to make XTL a part of the rae branch sometime this week as
I want to try it out communication with LyXFunc. I'll have to get the
latest release to see what's new. The version I have exports to plain
text but doesn't import from it. It seems very fast for CORBA and XDF(?)
formats.
> The thing is that XTL requires a fairly advanced C++ compiler to work
> completely. (However, we can use a less ambitious subset of the system
> with older compilers, and that is still a nice solution. I know, because
> I had to do that in order to make it work with Visual C++.)
>From what I saw in the code it doesn't need anything more advanced than
libsigc++ but then libsigc++ requires an up-to-date compiler.
Allan. (ARRae)
