On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:34:14 +0700 Lothar Scholz <llothar web de> wrote: > And for any commerical application you will see that soon there is no > way to use GTK+ anymore on this systems. Apples App Store will became > so important that you have to obey the rules that you must use the > Cocoa toolkit and on Windows8 we see the same with Metro. No metro no > app store. When you only target geeks then it might be ok, they can > use fink and unix tools and don't worry about the GUI output. In our case, we plan to write open-source app. > It very much depends on your competition, customer base and > application domain. But it's stupid from a business/money making point > to use GTK+ on anything else then Linux. Hmm...what would you say then about Qt on Mac? > So for Gour i stay with my advise to use WxWidget and select a > programming language that has a good binding. WxWidgets is using GTK > by the way in it's most stable Unix port. Do you consider wxWdgets better option for Mac than Qt? > And did your boss really approve to use an experiemental language like > D - he's brave! Considering it's open-source application, he is more like 'mentor' than 'boss'. :-) > I learned it the hard way to not put my trust into community projects > like this. Use a WxWidget/Script-Language/C/C++ combination. We would like to stay away from C(++). Otoh, wxwidgets is also community project, isn't it? Sincerely, Gour -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 -- In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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