Re: Technical Comparison

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

* dov imagic weizmann ac il (dov imagic weizmann ac il) wrote:

> Unfortunately it is not that easy to export any C++, even if you are
> using swig (which I have done quite a lot). There is a philosophical
> difference between gtk and qt. gtk was designed from the very beginning
> to make it as easy as possible to create bindings. Qt was created
> to make a strong C++ tied library. As far as I understand, mapping
> the C++ hierarchy of Qt to a script language is quite a feat.

What is it about Qt that makes it so difficult? A large amount of
typemapping required?

I really like the way that SWIG turns C++ objects into native objects in
the scripting language.

> Just
> compare the number of languages that provide support for Gtk vs
> for Qt.

What amazes me more is the number of unrelated language support modules
for Gtk which don't seem to share a common frame work - surely there is
a lot of duplicated effort there.

Dave
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