Fresco

[Björn Giesler]

Hi,

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 03:37, Björn Gohla wrote:
> i do not know how flexible their widget set is in terms of making it look
> like *step.

Is that relevant? Personally, I don't care much about the look of the 
widget set at all (as long as it does look halfway aesthetic). It's the 
feel, and the look of the interfaces, that count.

> one perspective for gnustep could be to become the development language
> of choice for fresco apps. i contend that the nature of objc allows for
> a much more natural corba interface, than say c++.

No. The nature of ObjC allows for a much more natural Distributed-Objects 
interface, which we have already, and which is totally different from 
CORBA. I've been working with CORBA for a while; when I started out, I 
wanted to eventually write a NSCORBAConnection. Right now, I don't think 
that is possible while still retaining our standard DO semantics.

I wonder about this entire discussion. GNUstep on Fresco? Surely not for 
the reason of greater acceptance, since Fresco has none. Not for the 
reason of having a nicer interface to the windowing system either, since 
Fresco doesn't have what GNUstep needs (WYSIWYG widget placement, Display 
PostScript), and going DO to the windowing system would break the existing 
gui/back structure (beyond repair, IMHO). I think this discussion is back 
to what we had six years ago, when people were thinking about an 
SVGAlib-based DPS server.

Of course, this being open source^W^Wfree software, everybody can and will 
do as they please, but wouldn't it be better to have a cross-platform 
system targeting Unix, Win32 and MacOSX before fragmenting on the Unix 
platform?

Regards,
                --Björn
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