About Slate and GUI

[Brian Rice]

On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Brian Rice wrote:
>> Yeah, that's a decent start. Why did you do this? Or rather, why  
>> did  you not come back?
>
> Good question. Partly that I suddenly had less time in my life for  
> recreational programming, and partly I think that the FFI stuff was  
> too immature when I first became interested. Now, of course, the  
> libffi stuff (IIRC) has been integrated which greatly improves the  
> situation... it's probably time for me to have another go.

Okay, that's cool.

>> It was definitely written with the Cairo model in mind. But you
>> /wrote/ most of that Cairo stuff - so why are you off working on
>> other things?
>
> Did I? It was Michael Bridgen who wrote the Chicken Cairo bindings;  
> I don't think I wrote any Cairo stuff for Slate, unless I've  
> completely forgotten?

I just meant that our graphics rendering API's were at least partly  
Cairo-inspired. That /was/ you that worked on it, wasn't it? ;)

--
-Brian