Re: Info about toolkits

> > > A recent criticism, was that evolution of a graphic
> > > libraries can cause otherwise well-running applications
> > > to rot, due to failure to port to latest graphics
> > > libraries.
> >
> > What do you mean?
> >
> > > So, longevity/maintenance is an issue.
> >
> > Indeed, some of those leaving GTK are doing so because maintenance of a
> > GUI written in C was a nightmare,however I'm not sure if it's due to C or
> > due to GTK.

Len Ovens, writing on the Linux Audio Users list, put it better than me:

Often the project is considered complete by the author and
so no updates are done. The problem with this is the graphic
libraries are not complete and do keep changing and at some
point applications will no longer run on the newer libs. We
lost GCDMaster[1] the same way. There has been really IMO,
no good replacement for it either.                             
                                                                                    
So the trouble is, "it works, whats to update?", tends to fail eventually.  

1. http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/gcdmaster/

-- 
Joel Roth