Re: Why Compilers are Doomed
Kat wrote:
> I'm unclear what budget hastodo with development at
> RDS, given that Robert is working on it anyways, and
> you are prolly spending more time at Eu programming
> than he is ...
I was referring to the price of the toolkits, not the cost of doing the
work. In a perfect world, the best toolkit would probably be Zinc
(http://www.zinc.com). There's a $500 "base" charge for the shared code, and
then additional cost for each module:
$500 for Windows
$3000 for all flavors of Unix/Motif or
$1500 for any one flavor of Unix/Motif
As much as I like Zinc, I get the impression that their future is a bit less
than rosy - but that's idle speculation.
The DOS and Mac prices are unlisted, I assume that they are even more
costly. So that's shelling out $2500 for two platforms, and even more for
additional platforms.
The other library that's very popular is Qt, by TrollTech. I've read the
specs, bought the book, played around with it for a bit - very, very slick.
But it's only available for two platforms (Windows and X11), and there are
no plans for a port to any other platform. In addition, it's tied into a
pre-processor - bleah! The price list is:
$1,550 for Windows
$1,550 for X11
$2,390 for Windows and X11
Both of these libraries are C++ based, which is less than ideal.
Hmmmm... wxWindows looks quite nice, even against the non-free contenders.
And there's work being done on a Qt port of wxWindows. 
I guess price *isn't* the issue, after all.
-- David Cuny
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