Re: Need a comprehensive C++ library

[Chris Thomas <chris alex thomas gmail com>]

not wanting to start a flame war, but why after 2 years, are you
leaving Qt to come to GTK ? sounds like a waste of a _lot_ of work?

On 4/26/05, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres <santiagocapel yahoo es> wrote:
> Hello list:
> 
> I have been developing for 2 years with Qt. I have developed a GPL report
> engine http://reports.sourceforge.net
> Now, I want to abandon my Qt develpment and port it to GTK-- and STL.
> 
> I will replace all the Qt container classes with the STL ones.
> My program doesn't use a lot of windows, so this is not an important issue.
> 
> But there are a few issues that concern me, and I need your advice:
> 
> a) What is the basic String type in GTK--? Does it support unicode? Can I use
> the STL string?
> 
> b) Are there Date, Time and DateTime classes?
> 
> c) Is there a nicely packed c++ library with all the elements that I used to
> have with Qt, like XML, SQL, etc?
>         c.1) If not, what library can I use for SQL? It should be really
> light-weight, just a wrapper for the MySQL and PostGreSQL servers.
>         c.2) For XML, I only need a SAX parser.
> 
> d) Is there a library for scripting like QSA? I don't need the signal/slots
> mechanism of Qt, just a light-weight expressions evaluator. I have even
> started to build my own one with lex and yacc.
> 
> I don't think these are big issues, I just need a bit of advise to start
> quickly with the best options.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Tengo que cambiar mi firma
> ---------------------------------------------
> Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
> santiagocapel yahoo es
> 
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