On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:06:05 +0100 Andreas Volz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
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(B> Am Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:06:54 -0500 schrieb Jose O Gonzalez:
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(B> > > they have apps, communities, publicity and big, mature toolkits and
(B> > > everyone
(B> > > thinks they are trying to "kill microsoft" so they all rally behind
(B> > > them.
(B> > >
(B> >
(B> > Ok. But, the apps and stuff may follow from a 'mature toolkit'..
(B> > So what is it about their toolkits that is so much more 'mature'?
(B> >
(B> > Who out there would like to spell this out in detail --
(B> > What do the EFL's need in order to be as 'mature'?
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(B> One reason (but not the most important) for me to use GTK+ for
(B> programming is MS-Windows support. Many peoply (including me) don't use
(B> MS-Windows, but *many* others do! So portability (not only for UNIX like
(B> systems) is a important thing. How portable is the EFL? Does it run
(B> (without X-Server) on OSX or MS-Windows? These are the questions for me
(B> to be a 'mature' toolkit. Did someone try to port EFL to MS-Windows?
(B> Will this be an easy task? I searched for this information on the E
(B> website, but found nothing. Could someone answer this?
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(Bthe problem is - maintaining an api that spans multiple os's - ESPECIALLY into
(Bwindows is quite painful. these days OSX is not hard - it comes WITH an x
(Bserver... but under that its unix - so you only need to contend at most with a
(Bnew gfx api if you dont want to use X there. windows is much nastier.
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(Bthe only thing that would encourage me to support windows would be financial
(Bgains - i have been told if EFL worked on windows we could be licensing it and
(Bmake a small fortune - that could easily be re-directed to make efl on unix
(B(free) work better. but i am dubious as to the claims it would be worth the
(Beffort. then again the windows SW devel market is immense - who knows. i'd be
(Btempted to get myself some windows dev tools and see - it cant be too hard. :)
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