Future of NEdit?

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Scott Tringali wrote (2008-01-02 18:32):
>I'd look into to porting NEdit to wxWidgets, sitting on top of Motif 
>(http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/faqmot.htm).  That's what you're thinking of.
>
>First just link it it in and little else.  Then, slowly remove all the 
>direct X and Motif dependencies until it's purely wxWidgets.  Once it's 
>done, rehost it to gtk or OSX whatever.

So you say (not as a suggestion, just as a talk point),
- we should switch from Motif to WxWidgets in the long run
- by adding wxWidgets and, little by little, replace anything Xt/Motif
  with a wx equivalent.

I don't quite understand what you mean by rehosting. You don't have to
commit to a particular platform, do you? That's the point, isn't it?


>Pure GTK in C is fairly icky as Motif is in C, just better, but still 
>icky.  It's still trying to model an object-oriented concept onto a 
>non-OO language.  Yuck.

We might as well switch to wxRuby while we are at it. That would make
things really simple.


Thorsten
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