On Friday, 22 October 2004 10:28, Boris Koenig wrote: > Despite from that I don't like the idea too much, either - > personally I am not that much into Java, and even though its > platform-independence is a nice thing, it's really a bit awkward > to make Java integrate with existing applications, and then > there's the performance issue, too - even without time-critical > applications, you'd always need to have a whole VM running - > probably not a good option if you want to run something like > FG, too.
Why would you want to run an Installer and FlightGear at the same time? Surely FlightGear would only be launched after the installer has done it's job and exited? And I don't see performance as an issue - installers don't need to do tons of number crunching. If the install takes an extra 30 seconds so what. I'm not a real Java fan myself but Java is the closest cross platform environment/tookit that we have at the moment. All other toolkits like wxWidgets (used to be wxWindows till MS chewed them out), GTK, Python, Tcl/Tk, etc need to be installed first and the installation process often does not go smoothly. I've seen universal installers around before. What do they use? Java? Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
