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Re: LPub open source?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:11:53 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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 pre/post processing))
before I open source it. Once I open source it, the first thing I'd like to do
is make it multi-platform. Never done such a thing, but I'm sure I'll learn a
lot, so that makes it worth it.
I don't want to go to source forge with it right now, unless someone is going
to help with it in its current (and unfortunate) Borland only form.
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> Don
Kevin
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| (...) Trust me, there's always going to be something else you should do before releasing the source. My personal favorite excuse that the code "just needs to be cleaned up a bit first". Since that's not as much fun as adding cool new features, it's (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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