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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: summary of the aKademy meetings
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-09-07 19:08:29
Message-ID: 200409072108.29356.wheeler () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 07 September 2004 19:59, Marco Lohse wrote:
> well, I would prefer: "why build another tent around some existing tent? 
> Why not build a house around the tent, so we will be warm in the winter, 
> and we can easily use another tent inside our house in cases we do not 
> like the old tent anymore, or we can even play with both tents at a time" ;)

But we barely have enough manpower to set up a tent.  As such it's going to be 
hard to build a house (or a skyscraper).
 
> But seriously, let us consider another example for 
> abstraction/meta-architecture: Qt. From my understanding, Qt is (also) a 
> wrapper for lower-level interfaces. It is no one-to-one mapping. It does 
> provide abstraction. Therefore, it works with different underlying 
> lower-level interfaces. That is possible because different underlying 
> lower-level interfaces provide a set of common facilities.

If Xlib was suitable with 1 to 1 bindings for application development we'd 
probably do just that.  It's not.

The other big difference is that Qt has a full time development team of about 
20 people.  We have about 5 people working on this stuff that have other 
projects that they care about more -- not to mention that I don't think any 
of them are interested in building such a layer.

-Scott
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