Re: Letter to Community
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:42:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Letter to Community | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.gtk.general |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> The question is: would PHP-GTK like to cater mainly to GTK programmers coming
> from any other programming language, or to PHP (aka Web) programmers who want
> to use GTK? Is PHP-GTK more about GTK (being bound to yet another language)
> or about PHP (using a new interface after the Web and CLI)?
>
> For the first part I'd say let's stick to the API. For the second I'd say
> let's have our own interface implemented the way it makes most sense -- the
> way it would be if people could afford to rewrite GTK from scratch and not
> care about backwards compatibility -sort of way.
That is exactly the dilemma I'm facing. One approach could be to
implement a faithful representation of Gtk+ API and then layer our own
API on top of it, via PEAR classes or otherwise. This could improve
convenience, at the cost of some performance impact.
- Andrei