Henri Lesourd wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Henri Lesourd wrote:
It's not clever at all to depend on Qt's XML parser,
for as soon as you do this, you need the Qt lib
installed on your target system *all the time*.
So? There's a high probability that this lib will be installed anyway
on your system if you already make use of QtGui...
The default version of TeXmacs doesn't depends
on any Qt lib: we don't want to force a dependency
on that.
Well, that was my original "concentrate on one frontend" advice if you
remember. Anyway, if you cannot bear QtXml dependency, you can choose a
number of other cross-platform xml library (eg. libxml), which was my
point. Of course if you prefer to do it all yourself, that's your choice
too.
The point is that C-style pointers and spaghetti C-code
is what *you* do: thus you enjoy complete control on
that if you want to do it well.
Mangling method names, or how exactly the dispatch is performed
is hidden inside the compiler, it's blackbox, you cannot change
it, and you cannot gain any reliable (i.e.: platform-independent)
knowledge about that.
Thus you don't enjoy control on these important things.
OK, I think this means that I, personally, won't enjoy (in the literal
sense) control on these things because, well, I don't think there is
much gain in controlling these things, how important they can be. If I
want to do kernel programming, I'll go program a kernel module :-)
Cheers,
Abdel.
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