Re: [Texmacs-dev] native and GPL port of QT to win32

[Dan Martens]

Hello David,

My name is Dan Martens, I am the developer that is currently porting texmacs to 
windows.  
Just to reassure you, the way that we are currently undertaking this project is 
by far the least damaging to the current texmacs code.  Very little code has 
been changed, and what has been changed is merely syntax, or file system 
pathing.  There section involvind texmacs forking and piping a child STDIN, 
STDOUT had to be changed considerably due to the inherent differences between 
Windows and Unix regarding processes.  We are instead rewriting all the 
underlying system calls that texmacs makes, including X11 calls.  It will not 
be a full rewrite of X, but just the necessary functions to get it working.  So 
far, so good.  We have the startings of a window up, which is excellent news.  
All other aspects of the program, including GUILE, and TEX interfacing are 
working so far.   
Anyways, if you would like to contact me directly, or you have any other 
questions etc.  You can reach me at address@hidden  

Dan
 
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:56:54   
 david wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:43:49AM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>> 
>> > Just for information, a guy is trying to port the GPL X11 version of QT
>> > to win32 :
>> > 
>> > http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
>> > 
>> > It could be nice to use this version for texmacs windows, to avoid
>> > licence problems (and fee).
>> > 
>> > What do(es) the developper(s) think about that ?
>> 
>> Yes, that is a good idea. Nevertheless, a native Windows port
>> for TeXmacs is already being worked on...
>
>Though Qt is good technically, I tend not to trust the licensing
>policies of TrollTech very much.
>
>Also I find it risky to base a win32 port, which is *very* important
>to the commercial viability of a project on Qt *and* kde-cygwin. If
>for some reason the development of kde-cygwin is stalled or Qt decide
>to change their licensing policy, we would get into trouble.
>
>Some people are already working on a native port. It seems they
>decided to port the xlib subset used by TeXmacs to the native win32
>API. Though I do not think that is the best possible solution, and
>though I expect merging to be very difficult, I still think that is
>currently the best bet.
>
>BTW, Joris, don't you think it would be a good thing to get our hands
>on they development code sometimes soon? I am under the impression
>that they have diverged a lot from your version (GUI, process, pipe
>and file handling at least are very different), so it would probably
>be a good thing to start merging while they are still involved.
>
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