Re: What languages/toolkit to use for the new GUI?

[Peter Marschall <peter () adpm de>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:54, "Grodås, Ole Morten" wrote:
> What properities does the languages need?
> - Crosspaltform. Have to work well both on windows and linux
> - Mature XML and SQL libraries
> - more?
>
> JAVA
> + Most computers already have java installed
> + Mature XML and SQL libararies
> + Fast development
> - Large memory footprint
> - Long startup time
> - nmap is written in C
>
> C++ and QT4 (all version will be released under the GPL)
> + Fast, small memory footprint
> + Mature XML and SQL libararies
> + Nmap is written in C
> - Using C++ can lead to more bugs

Please no Java !
You name the arguments against it
- slow startup
- memory requirements
- not all computers have it installed

I have a machine running from a CF card where I can run xnmapfe from; 
but there is no place for a JRE.

CU
PEter

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Peter Marschall
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