On Saturday 01 February 2003 18:40, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 11:28, Derek Fountain wrote:
Anyone care to explain this to Adobe when trying to persuade them to port Photoshop, et al?
Your problems stem largely from using c++. If your app was written in C you could even compile your app against libc5 and have it work in most environments. All distros I know of ship compatibility libs. shlibs.rpm in suse, for example.
What language did Adobe use for Photoshop?
I don't know but C++ is the defacto choice for most applications development these days. All KDE programs, as far as I know, are C++. Yes there's bindings for other languages, but who uses them? If porting apps to Linux means rewriting all the C++ ones in C, not much is going to get ported. If desktop Linux is going to be taken seriously, the problem of portability of applications between distros and versions of distros needs to be fixed. -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?"