hi,

antoine <map### [at] orangefr> wrote:

> >> I'm curious, when you say there is no more 3rd party libraries in the
> >> code, do you mean the gui of this new moray only uses the windows gui
> >> interface or is it cross platform (like unix for example) ? For example,
> >> the well known libraries 'wxWidgets' and 'Qt' are both cross platform
> >> but they are considered as 3rd party libraries... Can you provide more
> >> explanations about the dependencies (OS compatibility, etc...) of the
> >> new Moray ?
> > Moray is Windows only. ...
> > inside Moray, uses no 3rd party commercial libraries (there is still zlib,
> > pnglib) that runs fine on modern Win10 and Win11 systems. It still has strong
> > dependencies on the Microsoft MFC libraries, so cross platform is not on the
> > table.
> Ok, thank you for your explanations Lutz ;-) . As a Linux developer most
> of the time (C++ and POVRay mainly), I still have hope of running Moray
> on Ubuntu with Wine for example.

though ignorant of both C++ and the Moray code base, I cannot help but think
what if, say, a Linux developer and the author of a Windows s/ware got together
with view of translating ("migrating") the UI to a suitably licensed
cross-platform widget set ?  we'd all stand to gain :-).


regards, jr.

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