RE: [PHP-GTK] Letter to Community

> 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. I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you suggesting that we have PHP-GTK 2 (pure GTK+ API) + a bunch of optional PEAR(-style) wrappers to make certain complex widgets easier to deal with? Or are you suggesting that we have PHP-GTK 2 with non-optional wrappers included? > > - Andrei