Henri Lesourd wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Henri Lesourd wrote:
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.
As far as I understand, "concentrate on one frontend" is not
the same as "avoid being forced to depend on one underlying
technology of the frontend", but...
It depends. It could well be that the amount of time needed to adjust
the calling code from one library to another library is very low
compared to write everything yourself in order to not be forced to
depend on this one library. My point is that with open source you are
not forced to anything. But I agree that if the do-it-yourself code is
small, it's better not to add a dependency.
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.
When there is no control on important things, it usually
goes together with strong limitations in what you can do
in the related areas...
I know and accept these limitations as long as this means more free time
to improve things that I enjoy improving. I guess I am not interested in
the related areas you are talking about.
This being said, you can very well say that you are not
interested in such more advanced possibilities.
Right, things such as dynamically switching from the Xlib or Cocoa
frontends to the Qt frontend are not very interesting to me. Even though
this example is not a good one as it is not very hard to achieve.
Dynamically mixing Cocoa and Qt components running at the same time
might be harder to achieve on the other hand.
But its
very difficult to deny they could exist, and that there
are lots of uses of such technologies, especially in
the domain of implementing more dynamic and more user
hackeable environments.
That sounds like a great goal: the power of interpreted languages
without their limitations (speed). That's what I understood is your goal
from this all discussion :-)
Abdel.
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