On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:45 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
I have to wonder if they will use either of these (Qt or GTK+) since
it would be much easier to just use MainWin:
This is the sort of product that may be suitable for vertical market apps where each end user pays $3000/per quarter for support maintenance and upgrades but it is hardly a solution for the average developer.
Apart from that it seems to be a bit of a con; A system that allegedly produces native linux apps yet they need the mainwin runtime??? Its like calling the visualbasic runtimes "VB virtual machines! Never fear Oz-con software enterprises is releasing WinMainliner (tm) it works just like winmain but with wine renamed to 'winmainliner runtime and *IT* doesnt need 6 months to port your windows code.
Actually, MainWin works like WineMaker, except that because MainSoft has a Windows source code license, it should work better. So, it only takes a day or so to port the Windows code with either of them. That is if it works -- and it probably won't work 100% without some tweaking. So you will need to do some debugging and probably make changes in the Windows code. :-(
Yes, you are correct that you need a library to run a program compiled with either of these unless you statically link the application. But, Qt and GTK+ applications also require libraries to run. No matter which widget set you use, you will produce code that is dependent on that library. If you go farther an make a native KDE or GNOME application you are going to have even more library dependencies.
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