Re: [ROOT] ROOT & Qt, Swing, GUIs, Graphics Abstraction

From: Anton Fokin (anton.fokin@smartquant.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 11:56:28 MET


Rene,

four years of meditations have nothing to do with "faster". It is a kind of
reality which tells a lot about project management and possible consequences
which one would face chosing root as a development framework.

I have not left, I just grown up and busy with my own project.
www.smartquant.com is booming. It uses root, qt, galib, gnu stat lib and other
third party solutions. I feel happy that people using R-Quant can go for top
world solutions and I do not care that I can not put my copyright on Qt
lib/sources.

I do not really know what is my point related to current GUI discussion but it
is all just disappointing. I do not think that technical problems play the
major role in root development. It is relatively easy to look around and take
the best from other's experience and develop a low/high level interface for
your framework in a way it allowes to use third party or custom solutions.

Qt is a good example. It is actually root without cint, trees and canvas
graphics but with a number of other nice classes/tools. All other system,
Java-like, framework classes are there and it is _truly_ multiplatform. Making
root Qt-compatible is a good exercise for making _your_ framework more
flexible and, consequently, popular.

But looking back I do not expect much in the future :)

Regards,
Anton


Rene Brun wrote:

> Anton,
>
> I thgought that you had already left. Nice to see you again ::)
>
> So, what is your point? other than telling us that we should be faster in
> implementing things for you ?
>
> Rene Brun
>
> Anton Fokin wrote:
> >
> > Gentlemen,
> >
> > >It is my feeling that you are proposing to embark again into one more
> > high
> > >level interface to Qt (the one who is fashionable today). May be we
> > will meet
> > >again in 4 years to discuss, yet, one more high level interface with
> > Super_Sexy_G ::)
> >
> > you probably forgot one simple thing: you are developing a product for
> > people and people can not wait until you settle down your ambitions and
> > relax in peace and quiet.
> >
> > You already lost a number of potential customers (users)
> > discussing/arguing about rather simple things like windows gui. It is
> > simple for everyone who is going to use your product on windows platform
> > and its technical and political simplicity is quite straightforward: it
> > must be and it must use hi-end technologies currently available.
> > Otherwise people will live you again and again and live soon.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Anton



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