- From: Irene Vatton <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:39:52 +0200
- To: "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:54:13 -0400 "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca> wrote: > > The Amaya developers have made a wise choice to move to a > cross-platform API rather than rolling-their-own. This way > they can focus their resources on improving the product > rather than on making the product work on many obscure platforms... > > I read the wxwidgets.org site which is well organized and > their product seems very mature. I suspect this summer > is being used to learn the API and see how it can help > with the design of the next user interface (i smell font support !!) > > In reading about wintel platform, they support SUBSETS back to > win3.1 ;-] ;-] but complete for xp, nt and 2000. win95 is missing > a few hooks and they say nothing about Win98 [my platform] > My question is will the Amaya team be supporting the Win98 > platform if at all possible. Have they noticed any missing hook that > is crucial to their next Amaya version... The Amaya team will provide the new wxwidgets version on Win98 platforms only if all needed libraries are available and work correctly. > wxwidgets does support a subset of hooks for motif but i guess > something important is missing and hence a loss of amaya development > for that desktop. i hope this isnt going to happen to Win98! > -- > john russell ve3ll@rac.ca [those are L's as in LLAMA] > http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll > http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains > http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher Regards Irene. ----- Irène Vatton INRIA Rhône-Alpes INRIA ZIRST e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr 655 avenue de l'Europe Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 61 Montbonnot Fax: +33 4 76 61 52 07 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex - France
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