Re: [smartmontools-support]Non cross-platform interface?

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

>   It's been years since doing any GUI code, but wish and perl run on
>   pretty much everything these days.  Scripting languages are pretty
>   nifty.  Not that I am volunteering, too much other stuff (work) to
>   take up my time.  Just a thought, and encouragement. :)

Doug, thats the sort of thing I had in mind.  [Though my understanding is
that these days the cool kids use python interfaced to external libraries
like GTK+.]

Doug, off topic, didn't you just post about smartmontools on PPC64, on
lkml?  Does it work OK?  Any compilation or other problems?

Cheers,
	Bruce


> On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:48:46 CDT, Bruce Allen wrote:
> >Hi Harry,
> >
> >On Fri, 14 May 2004, Harry Van Zyll De Jong wrote:
> >
> >> Been thinking about it and berhaps createing a nuified interface so
> >> that depending on which platform the GUI interface is being written
> >> for they all have the same function calls or library calls to use.
> >
> >As I said earlier, I think it would be a mistake to have GUI interfaces
> >written separately for each different platform/OS.
> >
> >> For non posix complinet platforms like windows it may be easer to not
> >> use socket interfaces. Having a wrapper around the above mentioned
> >> library to support socket interfaces.
> >
> >I agree with the point that if we want to easily support non-posix
> >platforms (windows) then we may either need to avoid sockets or plan to
> >wrap them behind an interface of our own.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >	Bruce
> >
> [snip]
> 
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