> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:11:41PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > BTW: I remain in favor of GTK as the "quasi-official" gEDA GUI > > toolkit if only because it is already entrenched with gEDA/gaf, and > > managing the hell of proliferating libraries is a very important > > for usablilty. This is particularly important for newbies who can't > > be expected to install and manage two different GUI libraries. (They > > can barely handle one library already -- think about all the confusion > > we would face if two libraries were used!!!!) > > The solution to library hell is to use packages for your distribution > from the distributor or a third party. Debian users can "apt-get install > pcb" and get a working installation guaranteed.
That's fine for Debian, but what about SuSE, Red Hat, AIX, Solaris, Slackware, HPuX, Tru64, Mandrake, BSD, and so on? My point is this: As developers, we need to think broadly about what the newbie user wants (our customer base, if you will), and not narrowly about what's the best technological solution to any particular issue. Yes, we could only support apt-get for Debian users, but then who would use gEDA besides Debian users? > Of course this works as long as I keep the relevant packages up to date > :-| Also very true. Stuart
