On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Wickert < [email protected]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2011, 13:00 +0800 schrieb PCMan: > > > > So actually I'm considering the possibility of using C++ in PCManFM. > > Implement some new features with C++ will be much easier than doing it > > with pure C. > > With C++, the development can be more rapid > > Hi, > > frankly speaking I think one of the things that LXDE needs most for > rapid development is consistency. We cannot rewrite everything all time, > we need to finish and release it at some point. This being said I'd like > to strongly encourage you to not change anything but finish PCManFM 1.0 > first. It is a great program and deserves a release. > When developing smaller applications, the problems of C/GObject is not that apparent. However, when the scale of the whole program becomes larger and larger, it soon becomes very painful for developers to work with. For long-term development, "more productive development tools"are absolutely needed. Doing something in C/GObject may take hours, but it could be finished in minutes with C++ or others. C/GObject thing is hard to write, hard to read, hard to maintain, and hard to debug. It requires the programmers do the job of C++ compilers manually in C language. Developing with it is quite slow, time-consuming, and error-prone. It's just a pain to work with. For limited man power, a more productive development tool, if used correctly, can help a lot. I'll do some experiment with Vala first since it's totally compatible with GObject. If it works well, I'll consider using C++ since it can do things in a real OO way, and handles very low level things as well. > > > and we can utilize many nice existing libs. > Such as? > Boost, google-url, ... and all other C libs are still available as well. Besides, some code in KDE code base can be used if not bound to Qt. > > Regards, > Christoph > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >
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