Re: [sc-dev] [win32] discard SCSpawn?

["Ross Bencina" <rbencina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds fair to me, MFC kind of sucks anyway.

I'll use this as an opportunity to point out that the Qt toolkit is now 
available under the GPL license on all supported platforms.. so we could 
actually consider a cross-platform GUI solution.

R.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Frauenberger" <frauenberger@xxxxxx>
To: "SuperCollider developers list" <sc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: [sc-dev] [win32] discard SCSpawn?


> Hi list,
>
> I would like to discuss whether we should discard SCSpawn as the way  of 
> starting scsynth on windows. As far as I can see it has some pro  and 
> contras:
>
> Pro SCSpawn:
> * nice graphical interface providing all options and showing devices 
> available
> * remembers settings in registry
>
> Contra SCSpawn:
> * depends on MFC libraries
> * not consistent with the startup method on osx
>
> The main argument against it here imo is that it depends on MFC. 
> Microsoft now released the Visual Studio C++ Express edition, which  is a 
> free version of MS Visual Studio that uses the same compilers  and the 
> same IDE, but does not include MFC. If we could get rid of  SCSpawn and 
> allow for setting the device by name through the  ServerOptions it would 
> be consistent with the way it works on osx. We  could also print all 
> available devices at startup to inform the user  of her/his options.
>
> This way, we would have a way of compiling SC3 on windows without  relying 
> on commercial tools...
>
> what are your opinions?
> best
> Christopher
>
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