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Re: [Liberty-eiffel] Random thoughts about a Windows distribution
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Germán Arias |
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Re: [Liberty-eiffel] Random thoughts about a Windows distribution |
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Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:24:43 -0600 |
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Hi,
On 2014-08-20 11:32:06 -0600 Hans Zwakenberg | Ocean Consulting GmbH
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> as I'm slowly working towards creating a working Windows distribution, some
> random thoughts cropped up, that I'd like to discuss:
>
> - Windows programmers generally aren't too keen about languages without any
> native GUI support, unless the language is meant for web- or
> script-programming
> - Windows programmers generally sort of expect that a compiler comes with an
> IDE
> that shortens edit/compile/test-cycles
>
> It's moot to start a discussion about whether such Win-progger sentiments are
> justified or not, it's just the dynamics of the Windows scene as I got to know
> it.
>
> Since the team is very small, perhaps we should think about the availability
> of
> either of the above in a cross-platform way:
> - are any of the x-platform GUI's wrapped to Eiffel already? (Perhaps
> wxWidgets
> or some other good library?)
I was looking this too. There is:
http://fox-toolkit.org/
Seem still in development. It have a wrapper for Eiffel here:
http://eiffelfox.sourceforge.net/
But this is unmaintained. No idea if this could be hard to update.
> - is there any x-platform editor (perhaps Java-based?) that can be used to
> attached scripts to configurable buttons? ("comppile", "make", or whatever,
> etc...)
This could be done easily with Emacs. I can help with this.
Germán.
>
> Any suggestion about the above is very welcome indeed! Also any other idea
> about easing a newbie's entry into Eiffel - and how to reach him is welcome.
> I
> suppose that last question is about marketing communications really, but you
> get
> my drift...
>
> cheers
> Hans
>