Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 2/7/07, Shawn Rutledge <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 2/6/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On 2/6/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I agree with Joerg. Currently I am developing with bigloo and I am
> > > > looking for a good GUI library to use with it. As I have used Gtk+
> > > > before (in OCaml and C), I am just experimenting how would be a 
> > bigloo
> > > > interface to gtk. But I do not think I will use bigloo for all of my
> > > > Scheme developments. The next project could be in Chicken, for
> > > > instance. So common libraries to many scheme implementations are
> > > > valuable to me and I think the Scheme community should put 
> > efforts to
> > > > develop them, when possible.
> > > >
> > >
> > > For that the Scheme community would first need a common FFI...
> >
> > Why?  Wouldn't the SRFI just cover the API which a user of the GUI
> > library can expect to have, rather than implementation strategy for
> > every Scheme?
>
> Hm. Yes, you are probably right there. I mostly think in terms of
> implementation,
> which I consider (currently) more important.

And without concrete implementation on several Schemes, aren't SRFIs 
typically rejected / withdrawn as 1 guy's pet project?  This is where 
lack of a standard C FFI is really crippling.  It greatly raises the bar 
for what a proof of concept requires.

Also, what's the scope of a SRFI?  I'm doubting that cross-platform GUI 
widget toolkits are within scope.  It's not a simple facility, it's a 
big piece of software.  You could try instead for a "standard window" 
SRFI, but seeing how it's so OS-specific, I seriously doubt you'll get 
anyone to SRFI that.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every