I used to go by the name nute on the ReactOS forums. My site concerning Reactos is: http://web.robinson-west.com/reactos.php or: http://xerxes.robinson-west.com/reactos.php
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:33 -0800, dos386 wrote: > > Who needs WIndaube? > > I don't :-D > > I have been interested in ReactOS, but as of today I gt my forum > posting priviledges revoked > > http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8005&start=45 > > "nute" ??? See above. > > We've had to deal with plenty of bugs in GCC over the years that we > > wouldn't have had to deal with if we had used MSVC from the start. This > > project has even filed several bug reports with GCC over the years, and > > some of them have been marked as 'won't fix' > > The magic POWER of developers to "WON'T FIX" all the BUG's :-D > > > because the GCC devs either didn't think Windows was important enough > > to deal with such subtle issues or they didn't understand the mechanics > > behind the Windows specific issue. > > Yeah ... > > > for merely recommending that open source compilers > > and build tools be used instead of MSVC and the Windows SDK. > > Good, but how is this related to FreeDOS ? Well, I don't see anyone in the Freedos community insisting that closed source compilers be used and I certainly don't see anyone getting banned for suggesting the use of open source compiler tools, thank goodness. > > The ReactOS community seems to be extremely abusive, so I no > > longer link to the ReactOS home page from my web site. > > Good, but where can I find your site at all ??? Look at the top of this reply ;-) > > I hope the freedos community > > never gets to be like the ReactOS community. > > I hope FreeDOS will stay DOS. > > > there is the possibility of doing creative things. > > I hope freedos 1.1 comes together soon. > > Agree. Useful creative things, not cloning/supporting > Windaube-Whatever-WtF again ;-) > > PS: Seeing MinGW inferior to VCC is sad but pointless to discuss here. > Did you mean MSVC? I don't trust Microsoft and if the GCC folks don't feel like producing a Windows compatible compiler there must be a reason. I haven't used mingw enough to know what the problems are. In the dos world there is DJGPP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
