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Re: Self-compiling procedures [message #58792 is a reply to message #58733]

Tue, 19 February 2008 13:00

Michael Galloy
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On Feb 19, 1:27 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> I don't know anything about Qt, but I'm sure it's terrific.
>
> The problem with relying on 3rd party software, though, is that
> when something goes wrong (and it *always* eventually goes wrong),
> it is too easy for software developers to point the finger at
> one another. I would prefer to know who I am suppose to be
> yelling at. For example, are my current problems (IDL seems to
> become unresponsive to me at times, usually in the middle
> of an IDL course) caused by ITTVIS or by the fine folks doing
> the Eclipse development?

It doesn't matter, you get to yell at the ITT VIS people in either
case. The fact that they use other software to create their end
product doesn't absolve them from guilt if their product doesn't work.
And the widget libraries are already third-party software. It's just
that IDL creates a common cross-platform interface for differing
widget toolkits, then has to deal with all the issues that come up
between different GUI systems on different platforms. Why not push
that off to (successful) systems that already do that like Qt, GTK,
wxWidgets, SWT, etc?

Mike
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		Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Sat, 16 February 2008 10:47
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Wed, 20 February 2008 07:58
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 13:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:27
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:09
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:26
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:20
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:02
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 01:56

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