Hi Liam, On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 05:33, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:42, Iago Rubio wrote:The clue is - right now - avoiding to use Gnome libs, meanwhile they're not ported, you ease the portability of your program to other systems.No, the clue is to use them and give other people more incentive to port them.
Yes, of course. But it seems that we're loosing the point here. I'm not sepeaking agaisnt the use of Gnome libs. I'm just asking a question from a Win32 developer, who wants to know if it's easier to port applications to his work platform using pure Gtk or using Gnome libs. It's clear to me that it will be easier to port it, if you trust only in ported libraries ( aka GTK ).
By the time a new program is written, probably all the 2.6 libs will be ported anyway.
Yes, it's a matter of time. I also pointed it.
Rather than implementing stuff oneself, it's often better to help the larger community by porting the libraries that are already widely used. That way everyone benefits.
Of course this should be the best way to help the community, but it's not in the hands of a commercial - payed - Win32 developer. I'm sure if Christoph ask his boss to do the job ( port the Gnome libs required ) his boss will tell him, "Uh! Better forget Gtk". My recommendations in this thread must be taken into account only by commercial developers ( as Christoph ) that wants to take a try in their jobs with Gtk on Win32 systems. As you can see, this kind of people can't tell their bosses: "Well we must port those huge libraries, but it will be a great help to the OSS community", or "Yes we can use Gnome in our propietary program, I'm sure that in the future the libraries will be ported". For any other developer, I recommend to use Gnome libs, if they're required by his job. I hope my point of view is clearly explined now :) Best regards. -- Iago Rubio http://www.iagorubio.com GPGkey pgp.rediris.es id 0x909BD4DD fingerprint = D18A B950 5F03 BB9A DD89 AA75 FEDF 1978 909B D4DD ********** iago.rubio(AT)hispalinux.es ********** --------------------------------------------------
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