Éric Bischoff wrote: > Recoding for qt, gtk, win32, and Cocoa is a serious duplication of efforts. > > If the purpose for having an abstract layer and porting on so many APIs is > PORTABILITY to many operating systems, then this duplication of efforts > becomes > useless, because Qt is already very portable. > > If the reason for this effort is strategic INDEPENDANCY towards one library > provider, then yes it makes a lot of sense to have abstraction layers in the > middle. > Hi Eric,
definitely the latter, not in the sense of mistrust against the provider, but knowing the fundamental law that only one thing is constant - that things are changing. Quite as Qt appears like a good choice today, vcl's design appeared as a good choice back when the decision was made. And btw, qt and vcl are actually quite similar in their core design, and thus share the same weaknesses, conceptually - they don't use native widgets, but only native look (which is noticeable even today, if you look closely, and is surely not becoming less of a problem, c.f. Apple's deprecation plans...). In this light, I guess wxWidgets would even be the better choice iff we'd want to port against one specific implementation. Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
