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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dialog.el v0.1
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:58:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buowsqal0i5.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejci2rl0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:48:59 +0900")

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
>  > Since emacs already supports GTK, which offers widgets, it would seem
>  > silly to use wxwidgets (which is something else entirely)...
>
> It's not totally useless; wxWidgets is already ported to and mature on
> several platforms that Emacs runs on, including GTK.

Well not _completely_ useless, but it's yet-another-completely-
different-toolkit-to-support (it uses, e.g., GTK, but it's not
compatible with GTK).  I've heard a lot of complaints about wxwidgets,
so I'm wary of having any actual dependency on it.

-Miles

-- 
"An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there
can't be a god.  He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence
on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf
question."  [John McCarthy]

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <478A26B9.7040408@ig.com.br>
2008-01-14 11:27 ` dialog.el v0.1 Richard Stallman
2008-01-14 15:38   ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2008-01-16  2:41     ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-16  3:12       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-16  3:43         ` Miles Bader
2008-01-16  6:48           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-16  6:58             ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-01-17  5:05         ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-16 12:47       ` Vinicius Jose Latorre

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