Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

[Brandon J. Van Every]

[I sent this to the wrong list.]

John Cowan wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:
>
>   
> > My world is OpenGL and C FFIs.  
> >     
> Then don't talk as if you spoke for the whole Chicken community.
> It's irritating at best.
>
>   

If you avoid getting personal in engineering design discussions, you'll 
get a lot farther with people.  I've provided my opinions and plainly 
labeled them as such.  Since they are rationally stated and have the 
merits of focus and execution behind them, I don't apologize if you find 
them irritating.

I don't count myself in the uber-GUI camp.  I'm interested in quickly 
getting OpenGL windows and events functioning.  Minh Thu and John Emhoff 
actually have some code for this already.  Our outlook is game oriented, 
so we have a lot of agreement on what the interfaces and abstractions 
should and shouldn't be.  We're going to write code and not worry about 
what an uber-GUI needs.  Maybe we'll be one of the uber-GUI backends 
someday.  Or maybe doing 1 thing well, matters a great deal more than 
trying to be all things to all people.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every