I agree as regards dropping tcl/tk - I cant program in anything else except PHP lol so i wouldnt be able to contribute if we switched langs (sorry Harry havent read the doc yet, just going on what Phil said, will read later)
Tom On 7/16/06, Philippe Valembois - Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch ! > Hi, > between my so beautiful week end and my first day of work tomorrow, I take the > time to read mails and read yours too ;) > And the first point where I disagree is : > You want to drop Tcl/Tk ! > And it's a huge point ! Because if you drop it you will have many devels who > will leave the project because they don't know C or C++... Tcl/Tk would be > the only common point between aMSN and aMSN2 so if you remove it why call it > aMSN2 ? (not the same devels, not the same languages, no incompatibility ) > The only common point I can find is the aim to have the better MSN client the > Earth will ever have ! > KaKaRoTo you said I didn't created the amsn2 tree... But if I created it I > would have put in it our work with TkHtml... But where will be TkHtml in this > design ? It will be a GUI in TCL... But what said Harry ? "Usage of Tk for > plugin UI components will however be strongly discouraged." so it will be a > sort of "Do you I say but not what I do" very strange... > In addition, you seem to be very tied with GLib and don't want to use C++... > Why ? Why use some emulation of C++ in C ? If you want to use classes so we > should use C++... Else I could advise you to code our classes in assembly :p > Well, in fact, I totally disagree with this design but maybe I am the black > sheep... Even if I know C and bases of C++, I couldn't let all non C/C++ > devels leave the team... > Please everybody say if I am wrong or not ? Maybe I have too much feelings... > Phil > P.S. Harry, it's not that your design is bad (maybe on Glib thing it is > bad :p) but I think it hasn't any relation with the aMSN that everybody > know... > > Le Sunday 16 July 2006 20:38, Harry Vennik a écrit: > > Hi all, > > > > Last months I have done a lot of thinking about aMSN2. Especially about the > > GUI part of it. I don't know if everyone followed the XML2GUI discussion. > > Anyway, I changed my mind on that subject. I was convinced that, although > > XML2GUI solutions did already exist, those would not fit our needs well > > enough, so I started off designing a new solution, that would work for us, > > and probably a lot of others. But still I did not feel comfortable with > > that. It was just too much a matter of reinventing the wheel, and somehow I > > could not really believe that none of the existing solutions would fit. > > Especially XUL seemed so close, that I decided to go back one step, and > > reinvestigate the possibilities, and try to find out what I missed the > > first time. Eventually I found the answer, and chose Mozilla's XULRunner. > > > > After that, I started off writing the attached document, to specify: > > - What the aMSN2 project is meant to be > > - The aims of aMSN2 > > - The very basics of the technical structure of aMSN2 > > > > Please read it all, and send your comments on this thread! > > > > Harry > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
