[gmpi] Re: 3.14 UIs
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 07:41:46 +0100
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:24:50 +1200, Jeff McClintock wrote:
> I am a Windows developer, I have zero financial reason to support Linux,
> yet I am spending a great deal of effort replacing my MFC and
> Microsoft-specific code with STL and standard compliant code with the
> intention of producing a Linux version one day. I'm doing it purely for the
> learning experience, and the intangible statisfaction of having clean code.
> I don't need to be told what's best for me.
Quite. I'm a UNIX developer and I have zero financial interest in
supporting Windows. I write my plugin code to be (more or less) portable
across UNIX platforms and it turns out that some of them have been ported
to Windows, but not without a fair ammount of effort. We're not going to
get cross platform code merely by waving the dictatorial paw.
> If needed, we start a working group to investigate/develop cross platform
> libraries (GMPI-GUI). That effort can proceed in parallel with GMPI. This
> is a good idea if only to get the thing done sooner.
Well standardising an IPC mechanism which out of process UIs can use to
talk to the host is much simpler. I agree we shouldn't be trying to define
a toolkit though - there are enough of those, and I doubt GMPI mandating
one will be any more successful than previous efforts to restrict toolkit
choice (vstgui, directx, whatever's under win32 these days).
- Steve
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