Unix:
    Basically nothing.
    Played Around With: C, Java, PHP, SQL, QT, GTK, Kylix
Windows:
    Delphi - Medium
    VB - Medium
    C - Very Little (Dev-C++)
    Java - Very Little
    PHP, SQL - Basics
    Cygwin - Operation



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Tanner" <tanner at real-time.com>
To: "James Cameron" <quozl at us.netrek.org>; <vanilla-list at us.netrek.org>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Vanilla List] Netrek front-end!!


> Quoting James Cameron (quozl at us.netrek.org):
> > E.g.
> > James Cameron, PHP-GTK: high, gcc on cygwin: medium.
> > Mike Wyatt, Delphi Pascal with Win32 API, Java.
>
> Start with my list.
>
> Programming Languages: This is important because if you choose something
like
> VB, it's going to be tough for the unix people (ok, maybe someday it won't
be
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vb4linux/). I think a list of programming
> languages known to "work" on both platforms will be helpful.
>
> C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Others?
>
> Widget Sets: When I say widget sets, I'm talking scrollbars, buttons,
popups,
> menubar, etc. For sprites, animations, sound fall into the what I'm
calling the
> Media Layer. Again, a widget set that is known to "work" on both platforms
will
> be helpful.
>
> GTK+ (and it's derivatives), QT, wxWindow, Others?
>
> Media Layer: As listed above this is the "game framework". This is also
where I
> think most of the controversy will come. All Win32 game developers I know
think
> DirectX, choosing something else is hard.
>
> SDL, OpenGL, Others (can't remember any others right now)?
>
> Build Tools: Another point of controversy. Visual .NET gives an excellent
> devel-environment, but it Win32 specific. That is not to say don't use
Visual
> .NET, but contributing the project files is not very useful IMHO. We need
to try
> to use tools common to each platform.
>
> make, autoconf, automake, others?
>
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