Hi luca

keep going. This would be really great to have a cool GTK binding for  
Squeak :)
Continue. Basically any interesting piece of software is the result  
of a long period of work :)

Stef

On 7 juil. 06, at 20:50, Bruno Luca wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:19:13 +0200, Hilaire Fernandes  
> <hilaire at ext.cri74.org> wrote:
>
>> (Still with the idea to get a core Squeak.org version, free software
>> community compatible)
>>
>> A few days ago Bruno as announced some progress in SqueakGTK work.  
>> Last
>> year there were this couple of release with wxSqueak, since then it
>> seems to be quiet.
>>
>> Nevertheless, should we not give a chance to these projects and
>> carefully examine how we could take one of them to be mainstream in
>> Squeak.org.
>>
>> There are several benefices to integrate a third party widgetery:
>>
>> * We do no need to maintain it, only the binding
>> * Squeak could be use to write more traditional GUI application
>> * It will make us closer to the Squeak.org version, free software
>> community compatible
>>
>> Next come the Morphic issue if it can be relisenced:
>> 1. Morphic could be used to bootstrap the GIU Squeak.org version
>> 2. GUI IDE tools could be developed with ToolBuilder
>> 3. Next an unloadable version of Morphic could be arranged.
>>
>> Even if we can not relicense Morphic, we could get a reduced  
>> version of
>> Squeak.org without it, and also the possibility to load it and  
>> embed it
>> in the GUI (as it was demonstrated there
>> http://www.swerlingphoto.com/squeak/wxmorphic/WxMorphic.html)
>>
>> In this vision of a Squeak.org, Morphic will be an extension canvas
>> which can be load in Squeak.org at will.
>>
>> Many of us would like to keep and improve Morphic, many resources  
>> were
>> developed for it. That way we could get the best of the two world.
>>
>> Bruno Luca, Rob Gayvert is it something that sound appealing to you?
>>
>> What do think other?
>>
>> Does it sound appealing or is just nuts ?
>>
>> Hilaire
>>
>
> wxSqueak is currently really more complete than SqueakGtk,  
> therefore i vote +1 for wxSqueak.
> Also i heard Rob Gayvert is making interesting changes, like wxGTK  
> on linux and the unicode support.
> I think SqueakGtk is not mature enough for this at the moment,  
> eventough i would be really happy to have SqueakGtk as mainstream ;)
>
> However Gtk is going to be an interesting toolkit more and more  
> with latest releases, with a great support and a fast development.  
> SqueakGtk wraps almost all Gtk classes, with basic Glib, GObject  
> and Gdk support... it has been tested the first time by Goran  
> Krampe on Windows, now i couldn't try it on Windows.
>
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