Re: Cocotron

[Adrian Robert]

On Dec 24, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Helge Hess wrote:

> I'm not that much into developing-AppKit, but IMHO its a huge  
> difference whether you write AppKit just for Windows or whether you  
> also target X11 given that the two are vastly different. Personally  
> I would probably approach that by writing two entirely different  
> AppKit libraries instead of creating one huge monster abstracting  
> away the APIs inside yet another API ... (aka backends ;-)
>
> The OpenStep idea is to have a common API, not being fixed on a  
> common implementation.

Hi,

The gui / backend division makes a lot of sense because (1) most of  
the code in gui is and would always be drawing layer independent, and  
(2) NeXT / Apple have always split things along similar lines.

(Also, compare the size of code in gui and back.  We could also  
compare size of GUI/back to Cocotron "WinAppKit" but can't yet  
because functionality is so much less there.)