On 31/05/2010, at 10:44 AM, Marc Spitzer wrote: > I do agree with you for 'a' native wrapper. What is your opinion for > all native wrappers? The thing is that each platform that requires > native code is a source of tech support requests. Now let me go with > the things I have at work: > 1: redhat 64 and 32 bit, various flavors > 2: solaris x86 and sparc various flavors > 3: aix various flavors > 4: mac os various flavors including powerpc > 5: windows > 6 other linuxes
I care about Mac and Windows primarily, and building software that will sell (not dev tools) requires good native look and feel. > also lets not forget about LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues, No Mac or Windows user would encounter these. > incomparable > installed libs, the need to go off the reservation to get something > working. Instead of yum working on my redhat boxes I need to compile > a specific version of something *AND* make sure this app finds it but > that the other apps do not. And this is just one reason Linux on the desktop is a million miles from Mac and Windows. > well java is not good enough if you want a native look, you need C/C++ > and binding that java uses. And why should Luke be a martyr and pay > the price in his personal time/life for something that should be fun. a) SWT is not martydom, and is a lot better than Swing for a native L&F b) Luke asked for opinions. > Also please keep in mind that "Better" is a good target and generally > much more achievable then superlative. Shipped is also a wonderful > thing. Better and shipped are really cool. And if you keep shipping > better thing you get to superlative. Not if your toolkit (Swing) places an upper bound on the quality of your app. Antony Blakey ------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- J. M. Barre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
