On May 20, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > 2010/5/19 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: >> Is it really necessary to have the distribution in one stream? > > I think that that would be a great thing. > > Essentially, it means that the system is cohesive.
I too agree with this. > >> As I see it there are three different gui front end that share one >> common engine. >> a) the old trusted gui >> b) the new gtk >> c) the new jhs >> >> For a user they are vastly different. > > This might be true for some users, but not all users. > > We might even be able to interact with the same > session using both gtk and jhs? I was actually assuming that this can be done. With one session, users can connect to it using different GUI FE. Actually a lot of us are doing it right now by making our own J Session Server. What I am looking forward to is the changes with application interfaces. For a few years now, I've been working around the limitations of COM/OLE interfacing with .NET, particularly with the really serious issue of UTF8 character support in getb() and setb() methods (this actually bit me again with a production system installed in a factory in China). Still, I feel that the J Software team is in the right track with the modularization of the GUI and the engine. I hope the system goes out of beta soon. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
