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> Part of this is due to a stunning lack of project setup documentation, and
> another part is perhaps because cygwin/gcc under Windows is not my native
> world.
Many of us (most) don't have Windows, nor do we have the tools
required to get the environment set up and debugged and built on Windows,
natively. We can't provide that documentation, so it looks like Robert is
the only one, and I think he's done an incredible job at the tool thus far.
If you see a lack of documentation, how about asking him if you can
take that piece over for him, and let him focus on the code, or share the
responsibilities therein, producing both?
> The Conduit is Pascal?!?
It's built with a free version of Pascal, or was. Dirk is AWOL.
> Plucker Desktop is C++, but isn't a formal part of Plucker.
Sure it is, it's in the same project, it's in the cvs under the
Plucker module, it's part of Plucker. It's just not shipped within Mike's
betas right now.
> I started to try to convert it to VC++, and quickly ran into a few
> barriers such as it requiring wxWindows. Even after installing and
> compiling wxWindows, there are a lot of compile errors... maybe later.
Again, most of us who _could_ help with the Windows bits, don't have
VC++ (and don't intend on supplying Microsoft with more revenue by
purchasing it), and can't help you with that effort. Perhaps there are
others on the list who do have it, and can help you further with that.
> So it looks like potential new team members who work on the dominant
> Windows tools are pretty effectively frozen out of helping on the team
> until they've decided which element (and resulting language) and done a
> fair amount of effort to set-up their system for it.
Isn't that the same for any and all developers?
> Linux users are bang-in, but ex-Linux-users who don't live/breathe/die
> cygwin/gcc are cast out.
Nobody has been cast out. For many of us, it's foreign ground, and
if you wish to port it to VC++ or another language, you must first get it
working on the existing codebase it was built on, and then begin porting.
> Am I understanding all of this? Mischaracterizing any of it?
No and yes.
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
"Those who do, do. Those who can't, rant."
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