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Re: LPub open source?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:24:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague writes:
> If I were to open source LPub on sourceforce, is there anyone out there with
> borland C++ builder 5.0 that would be willing to help me? I don't want to
> bother if no one will help.
Well, I don't have borland C++ and I'm not sure if you'd consider
it helpful, but if you were to open the source there are some things
I suspect I would do.
I'd probably try to build as much as possible with gcc. Then I might
try to replicate the GUI with something portable like tcl/tk, or I
could decide that the time is ripe to learn some other portable GUI
toolkit and do everything with gcc. On the other hand, it's quite
possible I'd do nothing.
The point is, you never know what someone will do with your source
code until you put it out there. And most of the open source LDRAW
tools have actually gotten some code from secondary contributors.
Don
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| (...) Yes. I know and agree. As I've said before LPub *will* be opened sourced. I promise. It is a question of when. I'd like to get it to a certain level (the page layout and compact PLIs is probably it (maybe language neutral add-on interface for (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| If I were to open source LPub on sourceforce, is there anyone out there with borland C++ builder 5.0 that would be willing to help me? I don't want to bother if no one will help. Lots of people want things, but often the most vocal don't have the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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