[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Brad Douglas]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:02 -0400, William McKeehan wrote:
> On Tue, October 9, 2007 2:46 pm, Brad Douglas wrote:
> > Are you suggesting that everyone have a working http server on their
> > local machine?  That is quite an excessive (and generally insecure)
> > method of accomplishing the given goal, locally.
> 
> Well, I'm thinking about a limited http server as part of Xastir, not
> necessarily on port 80 (the default http port). It would be similar to the
> current Xastir server port. I think we could find code for a simple http
> engine to incorporate into the Xastir code that is neither excessive nor
> insecure.

If that happens, I will stop using Xastir.  It is unreasonable to
require users to install and run a web server for a single application.
Web GUIs are highly limited in functionality.

> > IMO, wxPython is the way to go for GUI development.
> 
> My suggested approach would let people develop a GUI in multiple environments
> and provide a standard "API" to facilitate this development.

This is not practical, IMO.


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