Hello, This is a question mainly for developers. I think. It's really a curiosity of mine and I have little say in the result of the project.
Someone I know is thinking of releasing his software. It's a program that at it's core is written in Fortran but has the gui written in win32. it has other open source programs attached to it as well. All bundled up in a nice .exe installer. He has gone through a lot of trouble of learning win32 and actually programming the whole GUI. But this at the end means that linux users have to run the program through wine. Would you consider this a complete disadvantage and a deal breaker if you would want to create a community around it and it's worth thinking about "translating" the GUI to something like python? Or other more cross-platform compatible languages? (I don't know if it runs in Mac for instance). Or would this be a bit of reinventing the wheel? It seems to make little difference for an end user as I've seen wine programs in the software centre. Or would it be incredibly more efficient if it's a "native" linux program? Or would it be more of a question of knowing who your users are going to be at the end of the day? -- Andrés envió esto desde su netbook con UBUNTU: sistema operativo gratuito, abierto y casi libre. ¡Pruebalo! http://www.ubuntu-es.org/ Por favor, no imprimas este correo. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
