On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:53:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One question was portability. It was suggested to ask J. Dubuois (?)
> from ActiveWare for assistence in NT ports because of its knowledge of
> NT internals. I just report this without knowing him but I can imagine
> that ActiveWare people are specialized in this field and have an
> interest of seeing Perl modules running under "their" platform. Maybe
> this helps Event as well.
If he works for ActiveState, Mr. Dubuois is probably a genius. Actually,
there are probably lots of people that are qualified to do a Win32 port.
As seen from here, the problem is that any work involving Win32 seems to
demand monitary compensation. Personally, I'm not going to hack Win32
in spare time. So I think it's just a matter of deciding how much it's
collectively worth to do the port.
Just for fun, if you (or your company) is willing to put up some money
for Win32 then send me email and I'll post a summary next week. To
protect the innocent I won't reveal identities, just the numbers. Let's
see how much people really want this to happen. ;-)
--
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank
