Plot2Kill 0.02

[Rory Mcguire]

dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Rory Mcguire (rjmcguire at gm_no_ail.com)'s article
>> dsimcha wrote:
>> > == Quote from Rory Mcguire (rjmcguire at gm_no_ail.com)'s article
>> >> Do you plan on supporting QT/KDE?
>> >> -Rory
>> >
>> > Long term, probably.  Short term, probably not.  QtD is, from what I
>> > understand,
>> > not very mature yet.  I had a @#)#* of a time working through bugs,
>> > inadequate documentation, missing features and general lack of polish
>> > in gtkD and DFL, and those are (according to this page:
>>
>>http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=GuiLibraries&oldid=AvailableGuiLibraries)
>> > considered more mature than QtD.
>> >
>> > This is not a knock on the developers of these libraries, as I
>> > understand that it takes time to create a mature GUI library/binding
>> > and the situation is
>> > continuously improving.  It's just that it's hard to build on that
>> > unstable/immature a foundation.  Once QtD matures to at least the point
>> > of DFL and gtkD, I'll seriously consider a port, but until then don't
>> > get your hopes up.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, once I'm done refactoring things, I hope that the
>> > dflwrapper and gtkwrapper files will serve as useful examples, so that
>> > others can contribute
>> > the code to do a port.  This should not be very hard for someone who
>> > already knows
>> > a given GUI framework well to write.  Basically, you just need to
>> > create a default plot window and subplot widget, and wrap a few drawing
>> > primitives in a compile-time interface.
>> If you use the pixmap backend of cairo then all one would have to do to
>> support QT/KDE is add an interface to control the second tier of your
>> lib.
>> -Rory
> 
> In theory yes, but do we really want to have this many dependencies?  One
> thing I'm going to insist on in the management of this project is that
> there be no dependencies except for the GUI toolkit being used, so people
> don't find it impossible to install.

Could the toolkits it uses not be specified on the command line so that it 
only uses the dependencies you choose it to?

e.g.:
dmd *.d -version=gtk
or
dmd *.d -version=cairo_cli