[OZAPRS] Windows UI-View Replacement - Development

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:13:17PM -0000, Andy Pritchard wrote:
> I did wonder if upgrading visually XASTIR would be more productive. But 
> what we are talking about here is building a framework to allow people
to 
> pick and mix there application and to promote developing of new
components 
> without the need to recompile the core framework.

What sort of components and what sort of component/framework split do
you have in mind? It sounds good in theory but I don't see what it would
really mean in practice.

I would live to see XASTIR ported to a better visual toolkit than Motif, 
like GTK2. It would look quite decent on Windows too in that case.

> I always find anything in C a real pain in the backside to compile. 
> Contrast that with Java where all you need is the correct classpath
defined.

Hmm. I think it's much the same. If you need non-standard libraries, you
need to get them and install them in either case. Maybe you are just
saying that the standard Java libraries are richer than the standard C
libraries, which is true. On Linux, distributions make XASTIR easy to
get (you probably don't even need to compile it yourself).


Hamish
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