Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library

Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library
From: Smith, Jacob N (jacob.n.smith_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-13 18:05:36

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gottlob Frege
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:10 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Thoughts for a GUI (Primitives) Library
> 
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Mathias Gaunard
> <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Someone could integrate Adam & Eve into Boost and get a very good
> starting
> > point; making Eve a DSEL would make more trendy and Boost-like.
> > There has been such efforts ongoing already, albeit I'm not sure what
> their
> > status is.
> >
> > I think Adobe would have something to gain from this as well, so it
> sounds
> > like a realistic and feasible approach to me.
> 
> Sean always said that he was fine with someone else putting it into
> boost, but he didn't have the time/resources to commit to it.
> 
> I know there is a DSEL inside Adobe, would be nice to tease it out of
> them.  Alternatively start from scratch with Proto - which would have
> made it easier for us, wish it had existed then.

You might consider contacting Jaakko Jarvi, as his team is still carrying on the "academic" side of the work on Adam. I am not sure how interested in Eve they are; although, in a practical sense, they must be working on this. I know that Jaakko, Sean, Mat, etc. made changes to the constraint solver that may not have made it into the Adobe tree.
 
> Tony
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