C Y writes: > I think if Garnet and McCLIM are fleshed out to full potential Lisp > graphics will be in a position to dazzle the free software world, but > the effort required to make this happen at its "proper" level is not to > be underestimated. In my estimation it's probably beyond a Gardner > project, at least at this stage.
McCLIM, while neither complete nor bug-free, is very stable and very usable. I would go as far as to say that nothing needs to be done to it in order for it to be useful for most applications and for a Lisp IDE. A backend for Windows is needed, however. While writing such a backend might be beyond a gardener project, more mundane aspects of McCLIM such as making it look better would be entirely possible. > I think eventually this would be the ideal situation: > > User level toolkits: McCLIM Garnet > > Graphics system communication: CLX cl-gdi cl-carbon > > Underlying lisp: All major free lisps, and commercial ones if > interested. Sounds good. -- Robert Strandh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
