An interesting view on social groups and their problems
Blake
blake at kingdomrpg.com
Sun Nov 11 19:25:44 UTC 2007
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:08:30 -0800, Jason Johnson
<jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the thing with Dolphin is that it was by far the most beautiful
> Smalltalk on Windows. I don't think the buyout is so much about
> keeping it out there as a platform, as it is about having the write to
> take the GUI code and move it to e.g. Squeak. Dolphin was far
> superior to any system I have ever seen for building GUI's and that's
> what people don't want to see lost.
Why would people think that the GUI would be especially portable? Isn't
that part of why Dolphin was Windows-only?
I haven't done it myself but every time I've run into someone who has
tried to take a Windows-based GUI and port it to something more universal,
there has been grief.
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