Re: Should I use gtk-perl or gtk & c for gnome apps ?]

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:18 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'll get down straight to your question:
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:33 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
> 
> > To me both offer rad development cycles and portability. Mandrake have
> > gone with perl-gtk for its sysadmin utils - so I suppose I'm asking,
> > what does c & gtk offer for guis that gtk-perl can't ?
> 
> Glade + C (or C alone) offers some degrees of control over speed and
> memory (mostly).
> 
> Gtk2-perl (gtk-perl refers to the old Gtk 1.x binding set) offers the
> ability to prototype your program way much faster, not only because, by
> removing some of the degrees of control that I mentioned above, relieves
> you from having to care about leaks and whatever.
> 
> Now, what is left to you to decide is whether you can live without those
> degrees of control or not. :-)
I'm more than happy to live without control over memory !  Fast
prototyping appeals to me, so gtk2-perl it is.
thanks
Rod 
> 
> Anyway, remember that the world is not black and white: you can
> effectively create your project in Perl using the Gtk2 module, and then
> you could rewrite some of the critical sections in C and get the best of
> both worlds.  You could even write a library of GObject-based objects,
> bind it as we did for Gtk2, and use it into your Perl program.
> 
> Or you could rewrite your program in C after you've come to a complete
> design in Perl.
> 
> Regards,
>  Emmanuele.
>