Developer's path to Windows/*NIX multi-platform?

[Jakob Eriksson]

Mike Hearn wrote:

>On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:39:14 -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
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>>>Do you think Wine is the way to go for me, or am I
>>>better off writing individual versions and keeping the Windows software
>>>native and then producing QT or GTK versions for *NIX? I'm at a cross-roads
>>>here, since I'll be dedicating years of work in whatever direction I take.
>>>      
>>>
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><morpheus> What is native? </morpheus>
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>I'd say a native app is one that feels like it was written for the
>platform. That normally means, native UI, good desktop integration, that
>sort of thing (in a desktop app).
>
>WineLib is a great way to do this. Pure WineLib apps will not feel native,
>because you're using a clone of the win32 widget set - suck it up ;)
>However, WineLib lets you use a native toolkit like GTK+ *and* keep using
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>

Or better yet, lets you use a "native" toolkit like wxWindows.  Think 
about it!


regards,
Jakob