Re: [Jocr-devels] Is the C++ transition still in the pipeline?

[Joerg S. <Joe...@UR...>]

Hi,

Conversion of C++ is not in my pipeline.
I am not against C++ in general. Its more due to the fact, that my time is 
limited and I dont want to spend lot of them for rearranging code and fix 
new bugs (Am I probably to old?).
I also see it as a problem that object oriented code needs a careful 
design. Gocr isnt designed that way, because I still not know what a good 
design would be. I still learning (by doing), how OCR could be made 
better.
If we change to C++ we have to choose one design and I 
think its more difficult to through it away, if it was choosen bad.
Also I dont believe that C++ code would involve more people who contribute
better algorithm than C code would do.
I think bad OCR is a problem of missing good concepts and clever 
algorithms than bad OO design.
I have also less experiences in searching bugs in OO code.
That are my main reasons against C++.
(b.t.w.: Why linux kernel isnt C++ code?)

So I think its simply to early (especially for me) to make such a one way 
decission to C++.

But its open source code, if you want to have a C++ version you can do it 
but probably without me. I have really no time for it as long as my child
is young and needs 90% of my attention after work. 
Its a bit similar to the libgocr part, where I did not find the time to
get inolved in.
Student time is gone unfortunately where I could spent 12 hours per day 
for progging.
 
I have no problems to make it C++ compatible (remove C++ warnings) or 
create C compatible C++ interfaces to help a bit.
I also want to add more explanations and comments to the code for easier
understanding. Thats all I am able to do.

Regards,
Joerg.