At 06:50 PM 9/23/2002 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > The Conduit is Pascal?!?
>
> It's built with a free version of Pascal, or was. Dirk is AWOL.
Does that mean it is no longer being actively built/supported?
> > 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?
Not even remotely. Other projects I've worked on use less unusual
languages (no Python, no Pascal), have more thoroughly-documented
build-environment requirements, and do compile under the dominant industry
tools that we probably already have set up.
> > 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 already working on it.
> > Am I understanding all of this? Mischaracterizing any of it?
>
> No and yes.
Sounds like you got the answers reversed. I understood and was not
mischaracterizing. Bummer. Oh well, if I don't do it, who will?
I've already started working on understanding the Python (and have
installed the latest Python environment for twiddling in) and on porting
the Desktop to VC++. Not that the Desktop needs more hands... Robert has
done an incredible job on it. I just want to get it to the point where
it's better documented and easier to support.
Regards
Tony McNamara
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