On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:41, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
Le Jeudi 18 Octobre 2001 01:31, Richard Jones a écrit :
On Thursday 18 October 2001 06:08, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
Great, thank you but why is your tool only available on windows and not also on other OSes as ZOPE itself is ?
It is also available for Mac OSX - has been for much longer than Windows. As for other platforms - they're not nearly as high a priority for us. And make no mistake - this GUI wouldn't exist if we didn't have a need to make the Zope experience more user-friendly for our Windows and Mac OSX customers. We've found that our Linux/FreeBSD customers are happy to use command-line tools.
But still, I bet many Unix zope users would love such a gui. As it works on Mac OSX it should not be difficult to port to these Unices (Linux/FreeBSD and others)
Not so fast. Both the Windows and OSX GUIs have been developed in the native tongue. That is, on Windows, it's very much MFC and win32-specifc backend code. On the Mac, it's Carbon with a POSIX backend. The POSIX backend code could be transported to another Un*x with no problem, but the entire front-end needs developing from the ground up. We're currently in release hell (to paraphrase the film industry :), but once we're through with that, a Linux GUI (based on a completely free toolkit [*wah* can't use Qt :(]) is on the cards. Richard