Re: GNOME needs some good SDK
Atul jangra <[email protected]>
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This is exactly why I started GNOME development so late. Undoubtedly It is the fastest software , but with poor SDKs , and APIs. We should step forward in this direction . Regards On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Michele Alex D. De Pascalis > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just look around: Apple and Microsofts have their own SDKs, APIs and > IDEs perfectly working with them. Compared to these, developing for GNOME > is way too hard and complicated. Maybe we have the fastest software, but we > have to write with Gtk, which is just a toolkit, without anything else > really integrating it. And C is over, so autogenerating a wrapper isn't a > good solution (talking about gtkmm). If a newbie gets in touch with Cocoa > and Xcode, he gets templates, he gets wide documentation, he connects > events with handlers by a drag'n'drop, cutting on the IDE's editor. > > But it's not just about the IDE itself, it's also about paradigms: Apple > chose Model View Controller and Delegation, and everything is written > around these, and it takes seconds to add a View to your application. > > I'm saying this because I've been learning Cocoa for eight months, and I > had learnt C++ before. Even now I know C++ is better in many ways, but > trying back Gtk made me understand it's not about the language, now. Those > who write iOS or Mac apps know what I mean with all this. > > Completely agree. I think that a lot of other GNOME contributors would > agree also. > > I really hope that we will have an SDK one day. > > Allan > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > -- Atul jangra Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology ,Delhi _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love