On 2004.07.22, Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dossy Shiobara said:
> > the "free" Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (and associated SDKs)!
>
> Would it be an option to go really free (without the quotes) and use
> http://www.openwatcom.org/?

Someday, I'd like to be able to call AOLserver on Win32 "production
quality" again, and to that end, I think it's safest to use the
Microsoft compilers.  What bugs me most is that Open Watcom has to
maintain their own Win32 API headers and libraries, but still link
against Microsoft's MSVCRT.DLL -- if Microsoft makes a change, will the
Open Watcom compiler keep up?

Plus, Microsoft is making great progress in changing its culture towards
a more open and free model and I think that's great.  On top of that,
there's some (perhaps misplaced) hope on my part that Microsoft's
compiler will be around long after people have forgotten about the Open
Watcom compiler.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)


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