RE: [Dev-C++] Porting Dev to C++

[Ramana K. <ra...@my...>]

Despite whatever any person may wish to say regarding porting dev-c++ to c++
being a waste of time, if there are enough people interested, it doesn't
matter if certain people think it's a waste of time, we can do it anyway.
I certainly see it as an interesting risk-free task that would have many
benefits for the dev-c++ community, so let us get some ideas flowing.
i personally envisage starting an entirely new c++ project from scratch
without using the dev-c++ delphi source very much, but instead using the
compiled dev-c++ as a guide as to what we want our c++ version to do.
obviously, i think it would be good to write it using dev-c++, but what was
that about builder?
also, i am a windows person, and i'm not sure what people on other platforms
are wanting or doing, but i would be writing the c++ version almost
specifically for windows. who else knows windows programming? i am quite
familiar with the win32 api, but have no clue about MFC or other container
classes and i think they are messy.
ok, enough of that, we also need to think about communication. we should
have a leader (i would suggest mr vranos) who keeps all the project and
details and divides the task among other programmers then collates their
code.
so are there enough interested people?

-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of Ioannis
Vranos
Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2002 8:07 AM
To: 'Dev-C++ Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Porting Dev to C++


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf
> Of Hongli Lai
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:47 AM
> To: Abhijit Shylanath
> Cc: Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Porting Dev to C++
>
>
> Abhijit Shylanath wrote:
>
> >So, is anyone willing to port to C++?
> >
> >
> >
>
> You should rather ask: "So, is anyone willing to rewrite it in C++?"


Well Builder includes a Delphi compiler too, so there is no need to
rewrite everything from the beginning, but we can start converting it
slowly, and write the new facilities in C++.


The problem is.... since most of us do not know Delphi, and you only
understand what is written you have to do the conversion. :) Anyway i am
not insisting too much on Dev-C++ written in C++ project, but as a
philosophical issue Dev-C++ would be more great if it was written in C++
(and so we had a clue of what is going on).


Ioannis

* Ioannis Vranos
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