From: Florent Pillet <florent.pillet@opteway.com>
To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-complian t?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00091912151903.12001@fpillet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vbvgvsogc0.fsf@erwin.isode.com>
I don't think this would be such a good idea. It would mean a major rewrite
of SN from TCL to C (not C++!) and porting anything to C just sounds like a
bad idea. Too many potential crashes, too many potential problems. If I were
to rewrite SN, it would be in C++, not in C...
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> What does "Gnome-compliant" mean to you? It's written using Tcl/Tk,
> so the GUI isn't going to change colours or themes with the rest of
> GNOME. It's also not likely to support drag&drop, be customizable
> using the GNOME control center, or to support the GNOME print engine.
> (The first is just because Tk doesn't do drag&drop yet; when it does,
> things ought to work with Source Navigator.)
>
> Rewriting the GUI wouldn't be an impossible task: by the looks of it,
> it's 65K lines or so of Tcl (including comments and so on). It uses a
> bunch of Tcl extensions, but I suspect all the widgets provided by
> those are available in GNOME's libraries.
>
> The only interfaces to the rest of the stuff seems to be running
> pipelines of parsers into dbimp, and accessing the db-1.85/1.86
> databases. The latter are fairly well documented; I'm not sure about
> the former.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-19 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-19 2:44 silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-compliant? William Gacquer
2000-09-19 2:56 ` silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-complian t? Bruce Stephens
2000-09-19 3:15 ` Florent Pillet [this message]
2000-09-20 4:37 ` silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-compliant? Syd Polk
2000-09-19 3:11 silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-complian t? William Gacquer
2000-09-19 6:10 ` Ian Roxborough
2000-09-19 6:32 ` Tee Y Teoh
2000-09-19 6:44 ` Bruce Stephens
2000-09-24 17:59 ` Mo DeJong
2000-09-19 6:44 William Gacquer
2000-09-19 7:05 ` Ian Roxborough
2000-09-19 7:42 William Gacquer
2000-09-25 0:47 William Gacquer
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