[Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
> > > but wasting energy on multiple frontends is not.
> > >   
> Currently, there are only two ports (Qt and Cocoa), with two
> maintainers (Me and Massimo), thus it seems manageable.

At this point, yes, I agree :-)
But I am sure that by fully switching to Qt you'll be able to attract 
new developers.

> It could also be that our encapsulation is done in such a
> way that it turns maintaining to an easy task (although I'm
> not 100% sure about that).

As I said in another message, encapsulation of a GUI API is not a very 
good idea IMHO. IIUC Texmacs have some kind of embedded dialogs that are 
drawn directly in the work area. Of course, those should stay as is, 
managed by the core directly; the frontend should not know about them. 
But in the other way, the core should not know about higher level 
dialogs programmed with your GUI toolkit of choice.

> > > Actually
> > > I think there is a lot of room for collaboration between the two 
> > > projects.
> > >
> > >   
> Yes, there are probably things to do in this area

I was thinking about adding Texmacs format as another additional backend 
along the current LateX and Docbook backends. This could bring real-time 
pre-visualisation to LyX using Texmacs side by side :-)
We cannot do that kind of things with LateX as the compilation is much 
too long. Just an idea...

> (although
> time, which is the most important resource, is currently
> missing).

Definitely... most probably the reason why the idea above will probably 
not see the light.

Abdel.