My apologies - I took your response to my asking if I missed the point
to mean that I had not and you didn't think basing a product on an
implementation of windows libraries was a good idea. Do you consider
this an ideal approach?
For what it's worth I would have no issue with Softimage using such an
approach if it was just for translating windowing calls, but mainwin
seeps into the core and forces upon us technologies which
fundamentally aren't supported across platforms, but which do have
high quality cross platform alternatives. I'd still find a full
framework like Qt more preferable because of features such as it's
builtin plugin support, bindings to multiple languages and the
simplicity with which you could pass an additional layer on top of the
existing gui to allow us to create plugin which can enhance user
interaction more comprehensively and simply than the current API
provisions. Plus it's signals and slots architecture would give a lot
more flexibility with how we connect our custom classes into XSI.
Cheers,
Alan.
On 12/23/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
I didn't make "a negative comment about another company",
you wrote the product supports Windows plug-ins and After Effects
plug-ins under Linux, and I wrote exactly one sentence :
On 12/22/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> it looks like it is using WINE for that
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Jones
>
> Well - it's better than no linux version, and I'd place a wine app as
> better than a mainwin app - even if it's just for it's support of an
> open source project.
>
> Plus it's being used only for gui components - I believe you rely much
> more fundamentally on mainwin than for gui support. I don't know the
> deal you have with mainwin, but I'd be surprized to find they give you
> anything more than a binary dump. If this is the case then from a
> development perspective it's once again an inferior choice to wine
> because you're reliant on a 3rd party to fix bugs that prevent some
> types of functionality in your software.
>
> I don't particularly care whether you speak as Softimage or not, but
> you are a representative regardless of how you try spin it. If you
> truly feel using an implementation of the windows libraries provides
> an inferior experience, as you've inferred, then I'd appreciate your
> pushing harder internally to get XSI transferred from mainwin to a
> crossplatform framework such as Qt. On the other hand if you don't
> feel that is the case then making negative statements towards another
> company which uses a similar approach to that of the company you work
> for is simply foolish and achieves no end.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 12/22/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Well given your previous comments about MainWin, I didn't
> think you'd would be getting excited about fusion on linux knowing
> that it's made with
> > WineLib and not really written as a X Windows application.
> >
> > Btw I made a comment, "a company" did not make a comment.
> It seems that you're the only one who keeps having a problem making the
> difference.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Jones
> >
> > I can't imagine a company using mainwin to run a windows
> application
> > on linux could view that as detracting from the
> application. Or did I
> > miss the point?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > On 12/22/06, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> > > it looks like it is using WINE for that
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Alan Jones
> > > > Posted At: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:48 AM
> > > > Posted To: xsi
> > > > Conversation: OT: Fusion for linux released
> > > > Subject: Re: OT: Fusion for linux released
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > oh - one of the things I probably should have
> > > > mentioned is it support
> > > > the windows fusion plugins and after effects plugins
> > > > on the linux version as well.
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Alan.
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