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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: A community Windows binding
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:35:18 +0000 (UTC)
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
: I have been watching this from lurking distance, and it seems to me
: that you are all missing the point.

I think the point is Windows programming, not general GUI
programming. There are things that make OSs and GUIs look
and feel different. In particluar, if your program uses
Windows specific features, how do you define an interface
that uses Windows specific features on *BSD/X, say?

How would you define an interface that is capable of being
ported to _both_ Windows and 8 1/2 (the Plan 9 graphical
interface)?

-- Georg