From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:01:36 +0900 Message-ID: <87ocecit9b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87630m1vnz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87r5jaywvt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87lj9iyv98.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83bpaeumdx.fsf@gnu.org> <20100711150142.GB3134@muc.de> <834og6uduu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278950879 6193 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2010 16:07:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:07:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fplemma@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, John Yates , miles@gnu.org To: Stephen Eilert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 18:07:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYLXu-00065I-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:07:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYLXu-0006r1-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33585 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYLXn-0006qK-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYLXm-0000kC-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:51710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYLXk-0000jZ-K1; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C3A7FFA; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:07:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0DDAB1A263F; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:01:37 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:127106 Archived-At: Stephen Eilert writes: > Indeed, I am left wondering why [moving to C++] it was even > proposed in the first place. It wasn't. What was proposed is using a well-known cross-platform widget set. That widget set happens to provide C++ bindings but not C bindings. It's probably moot since several people who actually have used wxWidgets in a real project say it's not advantageous over GTK+.