Re: [gtk-list] Re: announce: yet another gtk+ C++ wrapper (no caps as Owen suggest)

[Mario Motta <mmotta guest net>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Karl Nelson wrote:
>(By the way, which is garbage and why?  Gtk-- seems to work
>well for me and you seem to feel VDK is good, so we
>aren't talking about something as simple as one being garbage.)
>

gtk-- certainly not, is made well in my opinion and i personally hope will
be better in the future, VDK is too young to say, i was referring simply to
users  ability to judge if a tool  is good or not without be influenced by
tool makers.

>Unfortunately, there will then also be a division of effort.  Since
>both packages will need to be mantained and there is very little
>showing in the C++ department in Gtk already,  (many C++ people
>are in the QT camp)  it seems like the pool of available testers,
>users, and mantainers is small.  Was this project ever discussed with
>the community to see what they needed/wanted?
>

i can agree with you unless you think that new projects can 
attract new people.

>On the other hand, my limited understanding of VDK is that it
>has largely different design goals.  Therefore, we should
>certainly not dismiss it.  However, some discussion of its
>scope may be needed.  If one or the other projects
>expands to eliminate the need of the other, people are
>going to be unhappy.  
>
gtk-list is here also for non-strictly-technical topics, but we should avoid
controversial 
that are not useful and are time wasting.
regards.
Mario Motta
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