Re: gtkmm capabilities

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> Please do file bugs if you think that there's something missing in the
> gtkmm documentation.

I cannot point to exact locations and say 'this or that function isn't 
documented'. It's more about the whole 'experience' (lame word). Now, 
MSDN isn't all that, but take for example the documentation for a call I 
just needed 10 minutes ago: CWinApp::GetProfileInt(). Apart from the 
fact that MSDN has a nice application that I can use to search through 
documentation and bookmark etc, have a look at the webpage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc_cwinapp.3a3a.getprofileint.asp
It has a full explanation of all parameters, the return value, pitfalls 
to watch out for, information on how it behaves on different platforms, 
and a short example, on the page, that shows how to use it. The amount 
of works that goes into documentation like that is out of reach for FOSS 
developers (I'll be the first to admit that), but it would certainly 
make developing for Linux nicer.
This is not a complaint, and I do appreciate all the work that thousands 
of people worldwide put in all the great FOSS software that I use and 
develop with, it is just an observation. And this observation combined 
with the fact that in the commercial world, developer time is very 
expensive, leads me to conclude that 3000$ is not a lot of money for Qt.

> If anybody wants to pay $3000 for a few days of training, I and many
> others would be happy to help.

Again, this is the difference between hobby and commercial projects. If 
I were to write commercial software with gtkmm I would convince my 
company to pony up for training. But I won't pay for it from my own 
money for hobby software.
BTW, I do think there would be a market for a (small) company that would 
provide commercial support and training for gtkmm (but only if the 
Windows version would be up to par with the X version).


cheers,

roel