Peter, What platform were you trying to port to? On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 20:20, Peter Graf wrote: > Micah Dowty wrote: > > >I think the biggest problem was just motivation in general. It's hard to > >get excited about a GUI that doesn't already do everything you want it to... > > > > > I think this interpretation is only right for the unixish targets, and > therefore misses my point. In the unixish world you _have_ alternatives, > so it was only consequent that folks didn't get excited enough to reach > the "critical mass" of developers. In the "deeply embedded" world, > developers would have been very happy about PicoGUI feature-wise, > size-wise and concept-wise. I think it was mainly the portability issue > which held them back. The portability issue can hardly be solved by > application developers. If it's not in the main focus of the core > developers, a specific port would become an unmaintainable oneway street > and nobody wants that. > > I would have written PicoGUI applications if there was sufficient > portability in the first place, no matter wether I lack some features > for a while. To be more exact, I even started to port PicoGUI, but > quickly ended up in a jungle of small problems, which I personally could > only have solved "dirty" losing maintainability. So I gave up. > > >especially when it has no applications :) > > > In the embedded world, applications are often very product specific, > pre-existing applications do not play such an important role. I feel > that the existing examples show enough features to get the embedded > developer interested. Then he'll look in into the sources, and see that > he isn't able to port it. > > All the best > Peter > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE > FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines > robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match > for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
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