On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:13:00AM -0800, Mike Davis wrote:
> I'm now wondering if I'm going to have problems using my old palm
> application source files, in terms of handling multi-segment
> applications, with the newest prc-tools, etc.
>
> Will an old set of application source files work with the latest prc-
> tools set?
i.e. Has prc-tools changed over the course of two years in an
incompatible way, such that old source code or build scripts fail to
work due to changes in prc-tools since prc-tools 2.0?
As a number of people here can attest :-), I take this issue very
seriously. I have never and will never intentionally make or allow
changes in prc-tools that gratuitously break old source code or build
scripts. Non-gratuitous breakage might occur, but only after exhausting
other possibilities, and only with documentation and a gradual changeover
and/or provision of a simple constant-time effort workaround [1].
Other breakage is likely a bug and reports of such bugs are appreciated.
> I may stay with SDK 3.5 but not sure yet.
Changing SDK may lead to some incompatibility with old source code, but
nothing like the problems in the pre-3.5 days. Of course, with prc-tools
it is very simple to install several Palm OS SDKs simultaneously and
select which one to use on a project-by-project basis. Hence your old
code could easily stay with the 3.5 SDK as long as you wanted, without
affecting your use of earlier or more recent SDKs in other projects
on the same machine.
> I also remember that I had to fuss with the directory structure of
> prc-tools, in the original release.
That was two years ago. The Windows installation story is much better
now, and will improve greatly again in the near future.
> Is there a good description for setting all this up, as if I was
> doing it for the first time? Where?
Where have you looked? Have you tried searching for "prc-tools" on
Google and clicking on any of links on the first page of results,
particularly any of the top five?
Do you have any suggestions as to how this could be made easier to find?
John
[1] By "constant-time" I mean it takes a fixed amount of effort to
implement a workaround on your development host. Not an amount of
effort proportional to the number of projects you have, and certainly
not an amount proportional to the number of lines of code you have.
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