Dear god, that message you quoted must have been years old. We have no
MFC code currently in the mozilla trunk, and haven't for about 2 years.
Aaron Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> There is a strong desire among the windows engineers
>> to do away with MFC altogether, this will mean rewriting
>> the tree widget & other things. I think being able to
>> build with Borland C++ would be a Good Thing, but I'll
>> let a NGLayout person jump in and make the call.
>
>
> What I would like to know is whether DJGPP can do this as well, since it
> too is open-source. Of course, the Borland compiler is free anyway...
>
> Personally, I know very little about C++ (I'm a Java person at heart),
> but this idea just makes sense to me. What is the point of having
> cross-platform, open-source software that is so dependent on MFC and
> that requires Visual C++ to compile?
>
> Cheers,
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Mike Pinkerton
Mac Browser Weenie
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