Portability

[Chris Jones]

I agree, this is similar to what I was trying to say in my last post,
I think there is no way to get round our dependency on xlib for output
and sensing focus events on other windows etc. since I don't think GTK
currently offers an abstraction for those particular functions.

I don't honestly see why it matters what language we use for the
platform specific code.  Whilst I agree C is a very portable language,
so is python.  Either we write the xlib related code in C and wrap
bindings around that, or write it in python using bindings for xkb and
needed xlibs.  Which may already exist.  It doesn't matter either way
really.

On 11/05/06, Jack Lauritsen <jack.lauritsen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There is currently a discussion on the idea of a c core for ASOK. I think
> this is the way to go, but maybe for slightly different reasons than have
> been previously stated. Usually people say that c restricts portability, in
> this case I disagree. Many of the systems this could be ported to will
> differ at the level of graphics server. While the majority of the program,
> if written in python, wont really care about what platform it's on, the
> portion that generates the synthetic key event will be entirely platform
> dependant. If we decide not to use GDK because it limits us to certain
> applications, and use xlib to work directly with the server, then perhaps we
> should extend that idea even further. xlib will lock us down to x. While I
> agree that we should use xlib, I think it should be restricted to the core.
> The core should have no purpose other than receiving a request to create a
> keyEvent and recive the parameters to do so. It should not be tied down with
> anything else. Then if you migrate the program to something other than an x
> enviorment, you will only have to change that tiny little core to get your
> base functionality again. It may be advisable to keep all of the proposed
> extended features in ASOK as plugins/modules for the same reasoning.
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