Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:42:48PM -0500, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> I realize that this is probably not going to popular with everybody,
> but it would be nice if all of the tools that require a gui were built
> using the same library. Preferably, one that ports really easily.
> It seems to me that QT is a good choice for this because for the most
> part, it write once and compile anywhere.

Doesn't QT require special costly licenses on certain platforms?
 
> Quite frankly, I've progammed with gtk for a couple of years and it's a
> real pain in the a$$ if your writing for multiple platforms (Operating
> systems). I only use it when there is only a small likelyhood that the
> app will have to be ported. Also, the GTK developers are not known for
> ensuring backward compatibility.

I certainly wouldn't recommend GTk for cross platform work like that.
Still wxWidgets and fltk seem reasonably nice.  However, I haven't tried
either of them on anything other than Windows or X11.

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