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Re: ISO extensible Eu - Holy Wars need not apply

• Posted by Lee West <leewest at ALTAVISTA.COM> Jun 15, 2000
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SR Williamson wrote:

>
>You can look at it this way: Win32lib is in reality an extension to Eu,
>written in Eu. If Win32lib were broken down into easily-digestible modules
>(like Llama was going to be) and completely and totally spec'ed out (don't
>panic David, I don't mean by you! LOL!), when someone wants to add to the
>library, it becomes much easier. Windows only has about 17,000 API calls to
>wrap. In dos, I think you're working more from a blank sheet because you're
>not wrapping .dlls, but the principle is the same for the libraries.
>

In this particular case, I have always wished David had designed the
library to allow others to easily contribute code. But like they
say... "Hindsite is 20/20"! I know he realized this shortcoming, which is
why he started Llama, but... that didn't get very far. A project as
important as a Windows GUI library deserves a lot of attention and
planning, so I suspect your proposal might find some merit with this
project.

Comments, David?

Lee.