From: John Morrison (jmorrison_at_ahc.net.au)
Date: 2002-02-27 07:27:34
> > I remembered Doug Sutherland discussing this, but after looking
> > at his prior posts, my sense is that he leans in the direction
> > not to use Java, but wanted to do more testing before giving a
> > final assessment.
>
> Yes, I really think you should forget about Java for now, also
Yep I agree we have enough interest now in the plug-in/framework idea from
programmers and C++ is what most of ...... use so C++ it is. :-)
> networking and all of the other fancy stuff. I may try porting
> some of this to Java to see how it performs, but that's just
I'd be interested but as you say probably just an experiment!
> an experiment. The one thing that I think is important is that
> we end up with a windows version, not that I want it, but for
I agree there are a LOT of NON-Programmers and MOST of the would be windows
users!
> people who aren't techies. I think it was mentioned that SDL
> is portable to windows, next question: what compiler is there
> for porting this stuff to windows? Is there a GNU compiler that
> works on windows? I am totally clueless on windows development.
> I wonder if that free borland C compiler would work with SDL?
> I really hate the idea of using commercial compilers and tools
> (ie let's avoid visual studio etc).
Open source and free software all the way!
That also means that we could offer a package for who ever wants to write
modules!
Get this library + this compiler + these batch/script files and start
writing!
> -- Doug
John
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