> Mark: This is a pressing question: What is your > take on the choices of development options for > this FreeCard gang? Alain: We don't want to constrain our development efforts. Thus, our primary selection-criteria for our development tools should be guided by what is the best option(s) to achieve our goals. I don't want to sound elitist but the price and/or whether it is commercial or open source, while obviously important, are secondary consideration in my view. Open, non-proprietary choices are most definitely preferred, but remain secondary if these development tools are not bundled into FreeCard and are not needed by the FreeCard runtime in order to perform its task(s). > This pointer, sent to me, is worthy of investigation: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html Alain: I never imagined that there were that many choices for GUI-toolkits. I am blown away! > Mark: My initial hunch is a FREE & OPEN source > project might be wise to lean heavily on that > (Free & Open) type of development environment > too. Alain: Quite right. > If we want college students and others to pick-up > some code efforts here -- we might be shooting > ourselves in the foot by going to a commercial > development suite where there is a high cost. Alain: Not just students, of course, since cost is often a consideration for many developers, albeit to a lesser degree for the latter than for the former. > Mark: The commercial options might be the best > options out at this moment given where most of > us have been in the past years -- but commercial, > shrink-wrapped tools might not fit our long-term, > global mission well. Alain: Commercial or not, the question I would ask is: What option is the best one(s) from a technical standpoint? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
