Re: [ZooLib-dev] CW Pro 6 & Visual C++

[Michael D. C. <cra...@go...>]

Hi,

I will definitely make a proper release when we have some loose ends tied up. 
We'll probably have a "0.9.0" development branch for a while.  There are
problems with getting it into sourceforge CVS, because the original developers
(Andy Green & Learning in Motion) have their own private CVS which has some
extra stuff for their own commercial application that will need to be dealt with
so they can continue their original work once it's in public CVS.

What I'm concentrating on right now is getting it to build on BeOS PowerPC. 
Apparently inline assembler is not supported for mwcc on beos so I'll be
implementing the atomic math using Be-supplied library routines and maybe a
little traditional (non-inline) assembler called via a subroutine call.

The work I do for _that_ will make it easier to get ZooLib up on platforms that
we do not know the atomic assembly for or whose compilers don't support inline
assembly.

I have Visual C++ but I don't have it installed due to a lack of disk space.  NT
only installs on a maximum of 8 GB hard drive, and while you can use a larger
drive and grow the partitions afterwards, you cannot then use the emergency
rescue disk.  So with NT, Win 98 on Linux on a 9 GB disk I literally don't have
room for Visual C++!

Pretty soon here I'll be adding a much bigger second drive to the machine and
installing BeOS intel on it as well as Windows 2000 so I can not only support
Visual C++ but also Win2k.  I'll also be trying at least one of the BSD
distributions.

Mike
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