| From: | Harold Grovesteen |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 12:59:16 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: New SDK |
If it is such a bad idea why is Ami building one?
Harold Grovesteen
Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
>
> > >I don't really care about the platform the SDK runs on, I just am
> > >frustrated that I have been unable to get my hands dirty like the rest
> > >of "you all" [Texas version of the plural you, for those not familiar
> > >with the coloquialism.] My recent efforts have been in the Java arena
> > >(for the same reason I am excited about the SDK) and have some things I
> > >want to port over. We all seem to have our favorite projects!
> >
> > Windows version will be out as soon as we can. We currently have three
> > projects working simultaneously.
>
> All these people screaming for a version of the SDK than runs under windows,
> it makes me chuckle, what version 98/NT4/2000 ?, all basically incompatible
> and with there own sets of bugs & weirdness.
>
> Ok so you knock out a win98 version, then you get people wanting win2000, if
> you make a vesion for 2000, why not OS/2, MacOS X, BeOS, RiscOS4, HPUX,
> Solaris,
> AIX, IRIX, DOS, CPM, TOS and the custom embedded OS that i use at work.
>
> At what point should you forget about the SDK and concentrate on more
> important
> things, the Amiverse, BOOPS, OpenGL, Java1.3 ?
>
> The only reason i can think of for a windows version is publicity, most of
> the
> windows dev tools (BorlandC, VisualC, Microtech) that i have used need to be
> forced like there is no tomorrow to develop ANSI projects, there is poor
> support
> for the gnu/fsf software that is mostly being ported, and anybody who even
> goes
> near windows sodding registry should be killed and disposed of securely to
> prevent
> any of the amigaos developers even thinking about using one.
>
> regards,
>
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