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List:       openmoko-community
Subject:    Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973
From:       Clinton Ebadi <clinton () unknownlamer ! org>
Date:       2007-09-25 21:41:03
Message-ID: 87ir5ypgnk.fsf () unknownlamer ! org
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john <jptmoore@gmail.com> writes:

> I can echo these views.
>
> I personally like a C based framework as I develop on my Neo in
> Scheme. I use a Scheme-to-C compiler called Chicken which happens to
> work extremely nicely with GTK+. I can develop much more
> efficiently/easily in Scheme than I can in C. I would not have this
> choice if I wanted to continue with Chicken using with a C++
> framework. No doubt it is possible to integrate but what a pig it
> would be. Of course I am a very small minority taking this approach
> but at least I can if I want! It is good to have options. You could
> argue I am putting all my eggs in one basket (pardon the pun) but I
> have faith in GTK+.

You could use libsmoke from KDE to generate full bindings for the Qt
API dynamically with maybe a few hundred lines of C glue to wrap the
Smoke classes, and another few hundred lines of Scheme to make it feel
nice.

-- 
Corinne: rub a dub dub nekked in the tub

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