[mcclim-devel] status of mcclim

[Troels Henriksen]

Jan Brosius <jan.brosius at skynet.be> writes:

> Is mcclim built entirely on top of CLX?

No, McCLIM (and CLIM in general) is completely
device-independent. Currently, the default and best backend for McCLIM
is indeed based on CLX, but this is merely because that backend is the
oldest, and the one that has received the most work.

> Is there a gtk backend for clx (other than motif)?

"Gtk backend for CLX" does not make much sense (and McCLIM does not
have a Motif backend at all, though the commercial CLIMs do). There is
an experimental backend named "Gtkairo" that blends use of Gtk and
Cairo, but it is not yet as stable or full-featured as the CLX
backend. It may work for your programs, depending on what you want to
do. In general, the drawing primitives work very well with it, but the
more obscure CLIM facilities are less well supported.

> Is mcclim in alpha stage?

There is no defined stage. Strictly, it is not feature-complete as a
CLIM implementation (but pretty close), so it would not be appropriate
to call it a beta. On the other hand, while McCLIM is no rock pillar
of stability, it is certainly not as unstable as "alpha" might imply.


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