Re: gtkada/glade info needed

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

Gautier wrote:

> Maybe for a GUI building software the approach is not the same
> as for a compiler itself. The logical steps may seem more
> logical for the people who develop (and already know) it and,
> if you have to read a long documentation just to make the whole work
> together and finally realize that a basic aspect of the software is
> not stable or finished enough for your needs - just a theoretical
> hypothesis, not related to Gtk or any other - it could be a bit
> frustrating. Imagine also you want to convince a company to
> use Ada and that *their* people will succeed to use a
> GUI building software, it could be hard to do without a perfectly
> working "out of the CD" demo version. Simply - IHMO - because
> a non user-friendly, software meant to build user-friendly
> software can appear suspicious...

That sounds a little more like my point. I can't sell this as a
technology to use for a serious software development effort if I can't
demonstrate that your garden variety developer is going to have a
relatively easy job of learning how to use it. Imagine pitching this (or
any other product) to a Senior Bozo and having to show them a demo of
how you go about using it and training other developers to use it. If it
appears to the Senior Bozo that this is going to consume some
significant part of his budget on ramp-up time, the answer is going to
be "No".

The people who control the money don't like to take risks. If it looks
like a particular technology is uncertain in any way, they will fall
back to the tried and true. Maybe your average hobbyist can play around
with bits and pieces of a given technology and maybe even add value to
it for others. But when Serious Dollars are at stake, this isn't likely
to happen.

MDC
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