Re: [Gaim-devel] Windows port design

[Sean E. <sea...@bi...>]

Robin,

The Windows port just kinda happened. :)

Herman Bloggs, our Wingaim maintainer (who I'm sure is on this list, but
you may need to e-mail him seperately), he wrote a Gaim plugin to
interact with his TiVo.  Of course, most of the TiVo users who wanted to
use his plugin were Windows users, so Herman decided to port Gaim to
Windows.  He mailed me and Rob late July telling us that he had ported
it.

He had ported the stable tree; Rob and I decided we wanted CVS HEAD
ported instead, as the stable tree was frozen to new features.  We had a
bit of trouble contacting Herman for a while so, for fun, I ported it
myself, basing my work on Herman's.

Most of the porting is done by GTK+ which aims for platform independence
with its multiple GDK targets.  Thanks to that, the main efforts in
porting have been converting platform-specific code to its GTK
equivilent, or for stuff with no equivilent (a lot of the networking
stuff is platform-dependent) writing Windows code and hiding it behind
#ifdefs.  Herman would know more about all this.

So, really, there wasn't much "design" to the port.  It's a good example
of the open source development process, though.  Our OS X port will be
very carefully designed, though ;)

-s.

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:38, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Hi. Do you describe anywhere what your design approach was for the Windows
> port, what changes were involved?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Robin
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