Re: Portability between PicoGUI1 and 2

Am Mittwoch, 16. April 2003 13:17 schrieb Micah Dowty:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:58:54AM +0200, Roland Seuhs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before everybody gets coding for PG2 and PG1 becomes unsupported:
> >
> > How portable will PicoGUI apps be across platforms? Will you be able to
> > recompile a PicoGUI1 program on PG2? Is a recompile even necessary? (That
> > would be perfect of course ;-)
>
> The current plan is for there to be a compatibility layer in the form of
> a cli_c and cli_python ported to pg2. This will mean you can run pg1
> apps on pg2 with no recompilation, but that currently server-side
> components like drivers and widgets will need porting.

But this means that you would have to rewrite a PG1 program (from scratch ?) to the PG2 architecture if you want to have a "real" PG2 program or want some new features, is that correct?

Thanks again,

Roland

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