Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Bernardo Barros]

It's 21 celcius in Sao Paulo. Happy hacking day!

2010/7/11 Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:24:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:38 +0200
>> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > > Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>> > >>> But wxwidgets is ancient, clunky, and bloated, and not something Emacs
>> > >>> should be depending on lightly.
>
>> > >> I will not pretend to know anything about it but the latest release is
>> > >> from 2010-04-23.
>
>> > > I don't mean it's not maintained.
>
>> > No I am getting curious. You obviously know more than me about this.
>> > Why do you say wxWidget is ancient? (This is a little bit funny to use
>> > the word "ancient" here when Emacs is so old ;-)
>
>> > I know people have had negative opinions about it here before. It
>> > looked to me some of it was based on experience, but I am not sure.
>
>> According to their docs, wxWidgets is for C++, not for C, so Emacs
>> cannot use it.
>
> In that case, couldn't we just convert our base code to C++, then we
> could use wxWidgets.
>
> (Hey, it's over 35 degrees (of the Celsius variety) here in Nuremberg;
> this doesn't encourage high quality hacking.  I'm kind of wondering how
> far over Europe this blanket of smothering heat extends.)
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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