On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:10:15AM +0200, Mike Singer wrote:
> Byron A Jeff wrote:
> > > Visual Studio 6 or VS.NET are you developing with?
> >
> > Neither. I'm using the MingW GCC crosscompiler so
> > that I can generate the Windows executable from an
> > essentially unmodified Linux based source.
>
> I'm sure that developing the production software with
> non-MS crossplatform tools is rather delicate work that
> will get you into a lot of unpredictable troubles.

Actually it was a tool that facilitated porting a working piece of software
to another platform by adding little more that the Windows specific I/O port
DLL.

> Better save your students time for doing other stupid
> things, student's specific stupid things: drinking beer
> for example :-)
>
> Mike.
>
> P.S. Is not Visual Studio 6 Learning Edition free for
> students?

Irrelvant because then the app would require a total rewrite to work.
The specific task was to create a crossplatform application from a single
codebase. If you switch to VS, it's the VS way or the highway.

Also VS certainly isn't free for non students and there actually may be
a developer or two who may want to work on this.

We have a tool that does the job exactly the way we want it done. It would
be stupid to switch, not the other way around.

BAJ

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