William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> I also don't
>  see a problem with keeping the CLI interface around in addition to a GUI.

It's the contrary:  I don't a reason to keeping a GUI around in a addition
to the povray renderer, which *is* a classical command-line
batch-processing program.

> I might also add that Eclipse does not use Swing, it uses SWT

I know, which is why I mentioned Eclipse:  you don't really use SWT other
than in Eclipse-based apps.

> (which is
> a bit more lightweight than Swing). In addition, Java programs written
> against SWT can fairly easily be compiled to native code via GCJ (this
> is what Fedora does for their Eclipse binaries), eliminating the
> overhead of the JRE altogether. :-)

except for the memory overhead and invariably requiring Eclipse to edit
source code.

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