Re: Technical Comparison

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd treblig org>]

* Daniel Carrera (dcarrera math toronto edu) wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been looking for a technical comparison of GNOME/Gtk+ vs KDE/Qt.
>
> I am most interested in this comparison from Perl's point of view, but any
> comparative information would be appreciated.

I've not seen any bindings for KDE/Qt to scripting languages - a great
shame.

> Could someone help me out here?
>
> This is the current extent of my understanding:
>
> - Since Gnome/Gtk+ it's written in C, it's easier to make bindings for
> other languages.  Indeed, there are more bindings for Gnome/Gtk+ than
> KDE/Qt.

Not true.  There are tools such as SWIG (www.swig.org I think) that take
either C or C++ and generate bindings for Tcl, Perl and many other
scripting languages mostly automatically.  I've used this extensively on
C++ and Tcl - it works a treat.

One of the things I don't understand is why a lot of the Gnome language
bindings are independent when something like SWIG could be used to make
bindings for most of the scripting languages in one go.

Dave

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