From: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie McCullough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh.
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:25:59 GMT
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On Mon, 19 May 1997 22:09:32 GMT, El Guapo Grande del Fuego
<jah AT rrnet DOT com> wrote:

>
>I'm sorry, I just felt obligated to reply to this...  Please don't EVER
>make DJGPP Windows..  I know some other company is working on porting it
>or whatever, and that's fine, but I want my DJGPP for DOS!!  I'm so sick
>of all of these programs moving over to only Windows... I'm sorry, but WinNT
>just can't compare to good ol' DOS, especially OpenDOS... 
>
>atomly
>

Ok the line of reasoning here is a bit off.  I, personally, choose the
platform and tools that will fit the requirements of a program the
best.  Alot of times these requirements are best met by Win32 and it's
GUI subsystem and other times it's best met by protected mode DOS or
16-bit DOS (simple install programs maybe).  Don't try and force fit
your program into one specific development environment.  As
programmers we should be fluent in as many platforms and systems as
possible.  DJGPP covers protected mode DOS (and UNIX too) and it would
be nice if djgpp also covered Win32 because $200 - $300 is a lot to
shell out for a tool that you will not be using on a dedicated basis
(at least I don't).  Personally I think free software is the way of
the future.  Hopefully djgpp will have integrated windows capabilities
before too long.  It would not effect the DOS part of djgpp in any way
so why should it matter?  DJGPP is made to support DOS so you probably
don't have to worry about that disappearing.  What I really hate about
Borland and Microsoft (and most other commercial) development tools is
that you spend all this money on their compiler and it's support
system and its obselete in a couple of months and you have to go out
and buy an upgrade ($100) or the newest version (guaranteed to be $100
more than your current development system).  With djgpp I just
download updates and go.  What a great system.

Lonnie McCullough
lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu