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.