[aplusdev] Article on A+ and Linux

[Derek Neighbors]

Josef,

> The GUI of A+ is based on the X Window System, which is
> a (the original?) cross-platform GUI.
> 
> Perhaps your definition of cross-platform requires the use
> of the native GUI on each platform?  I think that would be
> quite an unusual usage of the term.
> 
> By the way (please be gentle with me, as I'm not a MS person),
> aren't there implementations of X available for MS Windows (tm)?
> Is the problem that there are none that are both good and free?
> 
Until very recently there were not free as in libre versions of X, 
however, I will say that when 'xplatform' means I have to basically 
install a whole other operating system on top of the one I am running that 
is 'doesnt count'. 

For example if installing cygwin to get a 'unix' environment on windows in 
order to Xwindows and such is a requirement to get A+ to work in GUI mode 
on windows then yes 'technically' you are crossplatform, but PRACTICALLY 
you are not. (at least not for the business environments I consult in)

To me I was really speaking in a different light.  I was trying to make 
the point that A+ could be used to make a nice OLAP engine, but that most 
people that would USE it have NO desire to use A+.  In order to meet their 
needs if you gave them an front end that was in a more 'common/familiar' 
language that let them leverage the 'strengths' of A+ you would be well 
served.  Perhaps its not feasible.  (Basically in reply to someone elses 
email, I wasnt requesting an A+ version of wxWindows (though that might be 
valuable), but rather use wxPython to write a front end to an OLAP data 
store written in A+.

-Derek