Re: EasyGTK

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sun, 16 May 1999, James Green wrote:
> 
> EasyGTK 0.10
> EasyGTK is a wrapper library to make GTK programming easier, and quicker.
> A typical 30 lines function in GTK can easily be reduced to 5 lines in
> EasyGTK. EasyGTK can easily be learned in a few hours, compared with days
> or weeks for GTK.
> 
> The words, "oh no, not *another* library" springs to mind :(
> 
> Surely all this stuff only adds to the time it takes to process all the
> runtime code? GTK is already slow enough without another intermediary to
> referee business :(
> 

Tell the author, it's not like it's a Gnome project initiative. :-)

There's nothing slow about Gtk to begin with, but I looked at the home
page for this library and it looks like a bunch of convenience functions -
doesn't add any noticeable overhead. A function call or two is not
noticeable on a 386, let alone a modern computer. If the library is nice,
more power to it. No reason to discourage people's projects.

Havoc