On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:28:09 +0100 andres <andre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > As a user I avoid Wine as I don't find it very reliable and I'm never sure whether it's Wine or the program playing up when things go wrong. Both GTK and QT are cross platform so I would have thought that is the way to go. No idea how easy/hard it would to to convert to them or just how crossplatform they are though. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
