Re: lgi reviews

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 04/01/2013 20:52, Patrick wrote:
> I just ran sloccount on the source directory:
[...]
> I don't know much of anything about gobject yet and I don't understand the code but at
> 4.5K lines. I think even I could carry on development by myself(so of course you could
> too) if the developer abandoned it.
>
> I think this is a very strong argument in favour of adopting it.

For binding libraries, such count might no be significant.
For lqt, for example, most of the code is probably automatically generated: as long as you 
are able to run the generator, the maintenance burden might be light.

I see lqt just reached the 0.9 stage, it should be quite stable now.

Of course, choice of GUI framework depends on general knowledge: if you know GTK+ or Qt, 
the choice should be obvious; if you know neither, it depends on how difficult it can be 
to learn one or the other, depending on quality of doc, amount of tutorials, etc.
Plus it can be a personal choice: I am not fan of GTK+ applications look on Windows, 
although they have improved a lot, so I would rather choose lqt.

Another option is tekUI, not relying on a binding of a framework, but drawing itself its 
widgets. One nice side is that lot of its code is pure Lua, so if potential 
self-maintaining is one of your concern, it can be something to consider.

These projects evolve slowly, but they don't seem dead. They surely would welcome 
contributions...

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