What's wrong with VDKBuilder?
- From: Hassan Aurag <aurag crm umontreal ca>
- To: gnome-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: What's wrong with VDKBuilder?
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 01:25:02 GMT
Actually that's my only question. The why of the question is simple.
Glade seems to be THE Gnome RAD, but I have found by accident that
VDKBuilder was excellent, and since GIDE seems to be utterly dead,
VDKBuilder is the next best solution.
Actually, I found out about VDKBuilder in a slashdot post in response to
(I think) Miguel's comments about code-reuse.
And while you are at it, why don't we use code-reuse ourselves. I mean
it doesn't have to be bonobo when we talk code reuse, even though bonobo
is important. How come each time the gnome-hackers start something, they
start it from scratch. Are all existing GPL'ed software crappy?
Take the gnome-admin project versus linuxconf. Helix-tools are still at
1% of linuxconf's capabilities. Heck, I still remember I could setup dns
from a GUI since RedHat 5.0 and maybe before that. Evolution is still at
25% of Balsa's. Actually if Balsa folks used gtkhtml to show the
messages, Evolution would be at 5% of Balsa's power. How come no one
thought of copying the imap/pop3/mbox code from pine for instance instead
of rewriting it from scratch with all the bug generation that such a
behavior might bring.
Gnome basic is the most ridiculously funny example on non-code reuse. We
have Python, and whatever your Gnome visual basic will become, it would
never be easier to learn/use than any visual python.
Again, what's wrong with VDKBuilder? It's at 30% of Microsoft Visual C++
power minus the templates wizards. Yell to your hearts content about
Microsoft, Visual C++ is a still one the best integrated environments.
H. Aurag
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