From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Cygwin.dll and win32 stuff
Date: 1997/03/23
Date: 1997-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.859166546@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc37e5$82184b80$a6fa82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
Nick said
<<For simple windowing operations, this may be possible, but for anything
vaguely complex/serious/commercial, the problem is that there are too many
fundamental differences between different windowing systems.>>
This is way too pessimistic. In fact there are a number of attractive
commercial offerings that do a pretty good job of solving this problem,
and there are many complex/serious/commercial applications that make
use of these approaches. Yes, they are not ideal, but they are quite
adequate for creating practical cross-platform applications.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-18 0:00 Cygwin.dll and win32 stuff David Bierbaum
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-03-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Cygwin.dll and win32 stuff - windowing portability Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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