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Re: Any applications coded in Dylan?
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:30:03PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> Is there a reason why gwydion and FO can not merge the products to create a
> better one or combine in the trenches to mature it ?
Well, the principal issue is one of license: Functional Developer is a
commercial product, released in binary form. Gwydion Dylan is an Open
Source project.
The other problem is that Gwydion and FD were completely independant
ventures, and, as such, wouldn't be able to share too much code, at
least at the compiler/runtime level.
As for ancillary libraries, however, FD has been quite generous with
source code. One of the biggest contributions (which, unfortunately,
still doesn't quite work) is the DUIM library, which should allow
Dylan apps to easily use GUIs.
Tragically, before any real work can be done in making DUIM work, we
need solid GTK+ bindings for dylan, which means that Gwydion needs to
speak the FO C-FFI API.
-jeff
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