[Texmacs-dev] Re: Compiling TexMacs on OSX

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
>
> > Henri Lesourd wrote:
> >
> > > It's not clever at all to depend on Qt's XML parser,
> > > for as soon as you do this, you need the Qt lib
> > > installed on your target system *all the time*.
> >
> >
> > So? There's a high probability that this lib will be installed anyway 
> > on your system if you already make use of QtGui...
> 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. Anyway, if you cannot bear QtXml dependency, you can choose a 
number of other cross-platform xml library (eg. libxml), which was my 
point. Of course if you prefer to do it all yourself, that's your choice 
too.

> The point is that C-style pointers and spaghetti C-code
> is what *you* do: thus you enjoy complete control on
> that if you want to do it well.
>
> Mangling method names, or how exactly the dispatch is performed
> is hidden inside the compiler, it's blackbox, you cannot change
> it, and you cannot gain any reliable (i.e.: platform-independent)
> knowledge about that.
>
> Thus you don't enjoy control on these important things.

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. If I 
want to do kernel programming, I'll go program a kernel module :-)

Cheers,
Abdel.