Re: PostgreSQL GUI

W liście z sob, 05-01-2002, godz. 16:09, Brent R. Matzelle pisze:
> --- postgresql(at)finner(dot)de wrote:
> > Maybe a good choice would be an overlying API like WxWindows (just
> > an
> > example, http://www.wxwindows.org) which may use several
> > underlying
> > toolkits (Gtk, Motif, ...) and compiles on several platforms.
>
> I would tend to agree with you that WxWindows is a good program
> platform to work with. However, QT has multiple advantages over this
> platform and GTK's as well.
>
> First, QT runs on many platforms, including Linux, Windows, Solaris,
> HP-UX, Irix, AIX, and the OS X to name a few. It also has a nice
> optional open source license. You can statically link an application
> with it, Opera for Linux is the biggest example. It has an excellent
> open source tool in KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) and a form
> designer tool (http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/tools.html) Not
> to mention multiple modules for database, XML, and table
> manipulation. Plus, the libraries come standard with every major
> Linux vendor which gives it a massive base of possible users.

don't want to start a flamewar here, but Gtk/GNOME seems to be taking
over the *nix part of the universe. It is becomming standard on Solaris
and seems close to that on HP-UX.

Qt has many versions, some of them are commercial. Opera is not a good
example as it is closed-source. You could as well mention Kylix which is
also based on Qt.

Those _commercial_ products don't tend to use Gtk only because it
doesn't allow to close the source of a program it is used in, not
because it is worse than Qt ;-)

And finally: Qt is not Free Software, not on all of the supported
platforms anyway.

I don't think that wxWindows is the best solution for all of the
problems, but when portability comes into play, it is a good choice.
And, as a bonus, it provides native look-and-feel on all of the
supported platforms.

Just my opinion, though

regards

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