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> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:44 PM
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> Subject: [REBOL] REBOL/View vs. OpenAmulet?
> something that doesn't fit in my mind all that smoothly:
Hi, than let's see if I can explain ;-)
> Why would some one who regularly signs off his email saying:
>
> >Use the free portable GUI Library
> >OpenAmulet from http://www.openip.org
>
> want to discourage REBOL Tech from publishing REBOL/View?
First I don't want to discourage them, but I would like to ask that the
Core and Command stuff is getting higher priority. I use scripting
languages as glue-code in everyday work. Further scripting languages are
very good suited for all kind of generators etc.
> Certainly your sign off suggests that you are well aware of the need
> for portable GUI interfaces, no?
Yes I'am. And you can be sure that I know it can be a pain in the ... to
get it run right. OpenAmulet isn't a me-too GUI library, the main advantage
it has is that its based on constraint solving... makes GUI programming
very easy. The project is about 130 KLOC, supports about 8 eight different
compilers, 3 main platforms with different sub-platforms, has a 400 pages
documentation etc. etc. and that's just needed for the GUI part !! Ok, it
might be possible to optimize the stuff but I think we are pretty good with
it.
As I know how much resources can be put just to the GUI aspect I'm a bit
afraid that the other parts are getting behind, as these parts are not sexy
but they are the core of a scripting-language.
> I think that promoting a portable GUI Library and in the same
> breath (same email) discouraging REBOL/View requires some explaining.
However, time changes and as I stated in my posting, I think about 50% of
the everyday applications can be converted to HTML, JavaScript and a good
web-server implementation. This model for applications hasn't taken off so
much yet, as it's not so easy to get right but it's definitely the way to
go!
I see OpenAmulet and Rebol/View positioned in different ways. OpenAmulet is
more for GUI intensive things, we have OpenGL support, C++ source-code
which makes it easier to use in C++ projects, network support (at least
very rudimentary), and an other concept to approach GUI development.
Rebol/View will be more like a HTML replacement... but let's face it, Rebol
is still quite fancy out there (I don't have a problem with this and I'm
evangelizing people to use it) and it's hard to push something new into
corporate development-lines.
Hope this clarifies some things. If not don't hesitate to ask me.
Robert M. Muench, Karlsruhe, Germany
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When do you want to reboot today?
Use the free portable GUI Library
OpenAmulet from http://www.openip.org
