Re: Some somewhat cooler thoughts...

[Adam Fedor]

Gregory Casamento wrote:

> The cons as I see them are:
> 1) .gsmarkup currently cannot express the same information as a .gorm file.
> 2) GUIs created using .gsmarkup on one platform may not look as intended even
> with the "autoformatting" capabilities which Renaissance provides.   
> 3) The intelligent layout, in this case, will stand in the way of making it
> look good on all platforms since changes on one may adversly effect the look on
> another.
> 4) The intelligent layout (GSVBox and GSHBox) features will be somewhat
> restrictive.

I think of Renaissance as being two parts, one that encodes the 
interface and one that displays it. These two aspects COULD be 
completely separate (although they aren't right now, I don't think that 
is a big issue). What I like the most is that the encoding part is very 
simple and very flexible, and perhaps more than anything else, it's 
human readable. Having recently attempted to port an old app from 
NeXTstep, I can say having human readable files could have saved me days 
of time trying to convert old, obsolete, and broken TypedStream files 
and nibs. I think, probably being accutely aware of the fact that more 
and more computer data is becoming unreadable because machines/software 
no longer exists to read it - GNU and the GPL prefer formats that are 
easily editable - that is a great advantage.

P.S. I think gmodel files are obsolete. So that only leaves gorm and 
gsmarkup, which is not that bad...