Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all.
> 
> | > The graphics and browser run in separate threads using sockets to
> | > communicate to the algebra. Due to the run-process issue in GCL the
> | > front end is being done using CLISP but nothing in the code cares
> | > which lisp is used.
> | >
> |
> | Did you get my fix for this posted yesterday?
> 
> In case my other email is swamped by the volume on this family of issues,
> note also that a fix for Windows is now in GCL CVS HEAD.
> 
> | > I've spoken to Tim Daly Jr. about the lisp-gtk work and he believes
> | > it is not ready for production use.
> | >
> |
> | Perhaps, but all the solutions will require work, alas, and what one
> | gets with gtk is glade.  Please take a moment and play with the
> | program.  The entire interface is generated graphically, with no
> | coding in any language, and dumped as a purely portable xml file.
> 
> That is actually very interesting.  Note however that GTK on Windows is  not
> as stable as it is on Unix.
> 

OK, but how bad is bad?  And how temporary might this be?  Anyway to
try a quick glade example on Windows to get a 30min idea of where the
issues are?

Take care,

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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