[Gambas-user] Some quotes and rant

Christof Thalhofer chrisml at deganius.de
Tue Sep 4 15:37:06 CEST 2018


Am 04.09.2018 um 11:50 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Linux policy : "Never break the user space API!"
> 
> GTK+3 policy: "Always try to break the API as much as possible at each 
> minor version so that nobody can write a GTK+ program that behaves 
> correctly during more than one month. And if you can implement a feature 
> with two levels of indirection, do that with ten levels, to make 
> external developers unable to understand how things work, and to avoid 
> any possibility of having a fast GUI".

Great rant, very funny if it wasn't so disastrous.

Is the GTK port of Gambas very important? At the beginning I tried GTK
one time and then switched to QT. Never looked back.


Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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