Concerning Mark's observation lsat week on AWT/Swing
where only a, "couple of files" were C++ instead of C
source code:
I thing it would make library maintenance easier when
everything is done in one single, regular manner.
If everything is C but a short segment, it would
make the world run better to not have exceptions
to the rule if they could be converted into C.
Mixed language projects in a mode like this _often_
have maintenance issues in this arena. Therefore,
I would suggest this conversion be done.
Dan Lydick
> [Original Message]
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org>
> Date: 6/19/06 6:49:38 AM
> Subject: Re: awt and swing integration issues
>
> My USD0.02...
>
> 1) If I were to write a GUI toolkit, I can't imagine why I wouldn't use
> C++ given relationships like "DialogBox is a Window"
>
> 2) Isn't it a reasonably safe bet that any platform that has a GUI is
> 'advanced' enough to have a reasonable C++ compiler for it?
>
> I understand the need to stick to the simplicity of C, but I'm not
> surprised w/ the C++
>
> Mark, are you suggesting we convert it back to C?
>
> geir
>
> Alexey Petrenko wrote:
> > 2006/6/18, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >> On 18 June 2006 at 22:16, "Alexey Petrenko"
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > 2006/6/18, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> > > c) I'm also wondering about the motivation for using C++ when I
can't
> >> > > see any pressing reason to require this.
> >> > You mean that most of the native code is C++ but not C?
> >>
> >> Yes. It seems to be a mixture of C and C++ and although I only looked
> >> at a couple of files I didn't see anything that really needed C++
> >> features.
> >>
> >> For portability I'd stick to C if C++ isn't really required.
> > But C++ gives at least 2 benefits for developer:
> > 1. Strict type checking
> > 2. It is allow to write env->FindClass("java/lang/Object") instead of
> > (*env)->FindClass(env, "java/lang/Object") :)
> >
> > Windows version also uses GDI+ which is class library.
> >
> > So I vote for C++...
>
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