why "dwt-linux" instead of "dwt-gtk" ?

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Thu Feb 21 04:47:24 PST 2008


Frank Benoit wrote:

>> Is there anything specific to Linux in that
>> DWT variant, or would it work on other Unix ?
>>
>> For instance FreeBSD and Mac OS X have support
>> for running GTK+ on either X11 or even Aqua...
> 
> SWT has these variants:
>  1.) win32-win32-x86         => dwt-win
>  2.) wpf-win32-x86
>  3.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2se
>  4.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2me
>  5.) gtk-linux-x86           => dwt-linux
>  6.) gtk-linux-x86_64
>  7.) gtk-linux-ppc
>  8.) motif-linux-x86
>  9.) gtk-solaris-sparc
> 10.) motif-solaris-sparc
> 11.) photon-qnx-x86
> 12.) motif-aix-ppc
> 13.) carbon-macosx
> 
> So, the project names could have been choosen more precisely like 
> dwt-win32-win32-x86 and dwt-linux-gtk-x86. But I found this a bit too 
> explicit. Perhaps, if we decide to also do a WPF or 64 bit port, we have 
> to rethink the project names.
> 
> If you could use the dwt-linux for anything different from Linux, i 
> don't know.

I see, just my ignorance about available SWT versions then. :-)

And if you do decide to support 64-bit, that could probably fit
within the existing projects (even if needing different binaries)

While FreeBSD can run the Linux binaries, it doesn't help the Mac.
Then again the GTK+ port does look a bit "alien" on it anyway...

--anders


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