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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Mahogany has been a horrible experience every time I tried using it,
> which should be about half a dozen times by now.
Infact, I have had a bad experience with almost all GTK+ mail clients,
including Balsa. Finally, I switched to KDE and started using Kmail, but I
wasn't too pleased with that too. So finally, I ended up with Pine. And
hey, it rocks!
> If it reflects the state of wxWindows, I'd rather not use it.
Actually, I'm not using wxWindows either. Mainly, because I do all my
coding in C and not C++. I'm not sure whether the Mahogany woes are
attributable to wxWindows, but it's quite possible.
> Another project worth watching though is Lazarus (don't remember the URL
> -- try freshmeat). It's an attempt to make an open source clone of
> Delphi using Free Pascal as the base.
I checked it out. The stable version is still at 0.1, but development
version is 0.5. The RAD tools aren't really in place yet, but development
is pretty active. This does seem to be a good thing, and might cause
Inprise to lose some sleep :)
> I have about two years of experience programming with Delphi (all the
> way from 1.0 to 5.0) and therefore hung out on the Lazarus list for a
> while intending to help with the coding. Then I found that I didn't have
> any spare time.
Ditto. I feel like helping out on so many projects, but have absolutely no
time. I'll have some time after November though (after my CA final
exams -- one group left :( ). But then I'll be working on my own baby
FreeBC, a GPLed accounting software for Linux. BTW, If anyone would like
to assist me on that, please mail me. Also, I got a minimal database
engine code ready for it, if anyone wants to hack on it.
---
Yogesh Ginde
http://yogeshginde.tripod.com/
Since we're all here, we must not be all there.
-- Bob "Mountain" Beck
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