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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:10:58 -0500
From: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford AT goingware DOT com>
Subject: RE: C COM objects?
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> Hi Michael, I remembered your sig from a Slashdot article :)

How nice!

> If COM and OLE are similar beasties,

OLE is built on top of COM.  Historically, Microsoft came up with OLE to do 
component GUI stuff, but had to find a way for programs to use components from 
other programs, and COM is the solution they found.  I don't think OLE is 
considered all that important anymore, but COM has found uses quite far beyond 
its inventors' original purposes.

> It seems most of the OLE/COM stuff should work more or less fine in Cygwin with
> a bit of tweaking.

I'll give ZooLib another try.  If I can build ZooLib with Cygwin, that will mean 
that ZooLib can be built with gcc on all the platforms that ZooLib supports (Mac 
OS, Windows, Linux and BeOS).  I think that would encourage its acceptance as a 
framework for writing open source software, if one isn't required to use an 
expensive compiler to build Windows software with it.

Mike
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