Re: Hello?

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Peter,
What platform were you trying to port to?

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 20:20, Peter Graf wrote:
> Micah Dowty wrote:
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> >I think the biggest problem was just motivation in general. It's hard to
> >get excited about a GUI that doesn't already do everything you want it t=
o...
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> >
> I think this interpretation is only right for the unixish targets, and=20
> therefore misses my point. In the unixish world you _have_ alternatives,=20
> so it was only consequent that folks didn't get excited enough to reach=20
> the "critical mass" of developers. In the "deeply embedded" world,=20
> developers would have been very happy about PicoGUI feature-wise,=20
> size-wise and concept-wise. I think it was mainly the portability issue=20
> which held them back. The portability issue can hardly be solved by=20
> application developers. If it's not in the main focus of the core=20
> developers, a specific port would become an unmaintainable oneway street=20
> and nobody wants that.
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> I would have written PicoGUI applications if there was sufficient=20
> portability in the first place, no matter wether I lack some features=20
> for a while. To be more exact, I even started to port PicoGUI, but=20
> quickly ended up in a jungle of small problems, which I personally could=20
> only have solved "dirty" losing maintainability. So I gave up.
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> >especially when it has no applications :)
> >
> In the embedded world, applications are often very product specific,=20
> pre-existing applications do not play such an important role. I feel=20
> that the existing examples show enough features to get the embedded=20
> developer interested. Then he'll look in into the sources, and see that=20
> he isn't able to port it.
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> All the best
> Peter
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