Re: looking ahead to 3.6

[John Swensen]

On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Judd Storrs wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I gave it a try and could get an initial version of qtermwidget working
> on Windows/MSVC (thankfully, Qt is MSVC-friendly). It's far from problem-free,
> but it's a starting point.
> 
> I read about RStudio (AGPLv3) today which is apparently a new GUI frontend 
> for R. The layout they use looks very similar to what I think we're looking 
> for. They're using Qt for the desktop interfaces and apparently have a 
> terminal widget working on Windows, Linux and MacOS (there's an additional 
> another java-based one that runs over the web). http://www.rstudio.org/
> 
> 
> --judd
> 

I took a quick look at the RStudio source and saw a lot of Java code (although 
there was some C++ code).  I couldn't ascertain whether the terminal emulator 
is in C++ or Java, but I am assuming the whole UI was Java as the main java 
dependency was GWT (the Google Web Toolkit).

John