From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aquamacs distro for OS X like behavior Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:24:21 +0200 Message-ID: <004e01c53bc0$adedf560$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <7ca1709813602da58a139cee58fb4c63@gmail.com> <3b9c4e2f33d37fed55f640dcafbc8d65@gmail.com> <002d01c53a15$4a871c60$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112912834 2854 80.91.229.2 (7 Apr 2005 22:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, Robert Roebling , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 00:27:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJfSl-0006lP-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJf29-00021K-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJf0L-0000pR-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJf0E-0000mV-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJf0D-0000ly-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJfRg-0002fB-KH; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (62.20.165.53) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.1.026.7) id 41E3200D00BC13AD; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:25:06 +0200 Original-To: , "David Kastrup" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35715 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35715 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stallman" To: "David Kastrup" Cc: ; ; ; Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Aquamacs distro for OS X like behavior > wxwidgets take GTK+ as one of their backends, so one does not exclude > the other. However, AFAICS wxwidgets supports just C++. I don't > think that it would make sense to move Emacs to C++. > > Yes, that is a pretty severe drawback. Thanks for analyzing the issue. I wrote to wx-users@lists.wxwidgets.org and asked and got this promising answer (and some other too): > Can wxWidgets be used from C? You might want to have a look at wx.NET (the C# bindings for wxWidgets) which have (or at least used to have) intermediate C-bindings. mvh, Robert Roebling