Just floating this out there to see if any of you that have worked with the source would see any advantage to porting Dev-Cpp to a C++/wxWindows codebase?
The disadvantages I see are obvious:
1. The main developers have probably chosen Delphi for RAD purposes, and now have established a substantial codebase.
2. The outside participation on the the project currently seems low (this also may be a hypothetical reason justifying the conversion)
3. The conversion would necessarily be manual, but there are pascal to C conversion tools, and there doesnt seem to be that many window spaces that would need re-creating (less than 50).
4. Debugging, and hampering new development (unless the second team just worked completely independantly and patched as new features appeared).
The advantages I see would be an environment that could build itself, be portable across many platforms (increasing user base and development base), and in a modern more frequently used language.
I would just like to hear any thoughts or suggestions, I'm sure without further justificaton or interest that this idea will never materialize, but it could bring the IDE into a beter position for contributions and hopefully take the some of the burden off of Colin.
let us all know what you think!
Brian
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Hi!
I guess you're not the first one that comes up with that idea :)
Although I think that it would be great to have Dev-C++ ported to 1. wxWindows and 2. other platforms, I think that it would take quite a while and a lot of man/brainpower to do that. And then, there already is a project that does that: MinGW Studio.
Anyway: If it comes to porting one day, count me in! I'd be willing to work on it and contribute. (Working on a little res editor here. Looks promising, but untill I got something working, it'll be my secret :))
Bye,
upcase
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Well, I understand a port to C++ could bring many more people to help develop Dev-C++, but that would mean a total rewrite, not just a port. It is quite impossible to port existing Delphi code to C++, using wxWindows or such toolkits.
Anyway, current objective is to release a stable version 5.0 for now :)
Greetings,
Colin
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Just floating this out there to see if any of you that have worked with the source would see any advantage to porting Dev-Cpp to a C++/wxWindows codebase?
The disadvantages I see are obvious:
1. The main developers have probably chosen Delphi for RAD purposes, and now have established a substantial codebase.
2. The outside participation on the the project currently seems low (this also may be a hypothetical reason justifying the conversion)
3. The conversion would necessarily be manual, but there are pascal to C conversion tools, and there doesnt seem to be that many window spaces that would need re-creating (less than 50).
4. Debugging, and hampering new development (unless the second team just worked completely independantly and patched as new features appeared).
The advantages I see would be an environment that could build itself, be portable across many platforms (increasing user base and development base), and in a modern more frequently used language.
I would just like to hear any thoughts or suggestions, I'm sure without further justificaton or interest that this idea will never materialize, but it could bring the IDE into a beter position for contributions and hopefully take the some of the burden off of Colin.
let us all know what you think!
Brian
Brian,
You might want also to directly email Colin, it may take him a bit to respond, but he is a very nice...
Wayne
Hi!
I guess you're not the first one that comes up with that idea :)
Although I think that it would be great to have Dev-C++ ported to 1. wxWindows and 2. other platforms, I think that it would take quite a while and a lot of man/brainpower to do that. And then, there already is a project that does that: MinGW Studio.
Anyway: If it comes to porting one day, count me in! I'd be willing to work on it and contribute. (Working on a little res editor here. Looks promising, but untill I got something working, it'll be my secret :))
Bye,
upcase
Hello,
Well, I understand a port to C++ could bring many more people to help develop Dev-C++, but that would mean a total rewrite, not just a port. It is quite impossible to port existing Delphi code to C++, using wxWindows or such toolkits.
Anyway, current objective is to release a stable version 5.0 for now :)
Greetings,
Colin