Re: [Gimp-print-devel] development release?

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:13:04 -0700
   From: "S. Miller" <sm...@rn...>

   I would also like to toss in the notion of using C++ for some of this,
   which would facilitate custom popups by deriving them from a base
   class.  If everyone hates this, I'll keep using C, but please give it
   some thought.

My own experience (from a startup where I spent over 4 years dealing
with it) is that C++ is great for standalone stuff where everything is
written in C++, but horrible if it has to interface with anything
else.  I didn't really loathe the language -- I left that for our C++
guru, who pointed out that one really has to understand it to loathe
it in its full glory -- but it does require real expertise to use
correctly.

I have to admit that there's stuff even in the low levels that I'd
like to use C++ for, but it's probably going to cause more problems
than it will solve.  However, if there's one place that it really
makes sense, it's in the GUI, which after all is not going to be
directly portable to anything beyond the Gimp and where inheritance is
known to be very useful.  So my take would be to lean against it, but
if it's going to make your life radically easier and won't force the
lower level stuff to use C++, I'd say give it a whirl.

(Besides, we might actually learn a little something about how to
design printing interfaces in general that might just come in handy
down the road.)

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