Re: [ jEdit-devel ] usability

[Shawn P. <pr...@te...>]

I'm glad you are so hopeful.  I actually, really do want you to convert this to a GNU make/gcc project so that everyone can recompile jeditlauncher.  I think Alex is going to get this to compile using VC++ and when he does it, I'm going to use the converter myself on the project file.  You are right though:  I am "fearful" it would be a time consuming task that nobody will do.  I am "Uncertain" of how much work is involved in doing this step and I have only a little bit of "doubt" that the source code would have to be modified to make it work.  Ah, lets not bash C++'s "standardization" here.  Let that sleeping dog lie for now.

If you want to get at Microsoft, help us make jeditlauncher easier to use so that everyone has a favorite editor that works on another non-MS systems.  Make the applications work well everywhere, including Windows, and the price of Windows OS CDs will come tumbling down and the quality will go up; and the old desktop monopoly will disappear. 

Cheers,

Shawn Pringle

----- Original Message -----
From: Randall R Schulz <rs...@so...>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:52:06 -0700 
To: jEd...@li...
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-devel ] usability

> At 18:19 2003-08-28, Shawn Pringle wrote:
> >If we try to make this into a Mingw we might find it will not work.  I 
> >think we should try to stick to one goal at a time.  The first goal is 
> >getting the critter to compile.  Then we can put it into the CVS and 
> >have everyone with VC++ compile it.
> >
> >After that, we have a fork in the road:  Convert this to all Make/GCC 
> >or continue to source.  What about the header files don't you need 
> >VC++ for that?  Can it handle the COM stuff where do you get the 
> >libraries for that?  Can we download that too?  It's a big can of 
> >worms!  I think it is much easier to just work with VC++ for now.
> 
> It sounds like Microsoft's got you where right they want you: Fearful, 
> uncertain and doubtful--FUDful.
> 
> 
> >Once we get Alex's changes into CVS we can all work on the same source code.
> >
> >Shawn Pringle
> 
> 
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