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Re: Track Designer Registry
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 03:30:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward writes:
"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> writes:
  I got the source, started making changes to be able to run it under linux
but when I graduated and started working my free time was reduced
drastically and I couldn't continue working on it. :(

Run under linux? music to my ears...

Rather than move to .NET would you (Matt) consider moving it to a more
cross-platform system, such as Java?

--Bill.

While I like Java more than most, that would be a complete rewrite, ne? And
I have to agree with Kevin D. (and Joel, his reference, whom I've enjoyed
reading for years now) that a complete rewrite is hardly ever a good idea.

But then I'm an architect and I like to reuse things that already exist and
work fine whenever possible.

If Matt's agreeable, put the code on SourceForge and let people try to grok
it and add features, but rewrite the whole thing??? Wouldn't be prudent. IMHO.



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  Re: Track Designer Registry
 
At this point I really don't mind what happens to Track Designer, I have zero time to spend on it. I'm basically going to open it up to the community and you guys can do whatever you want with the source, modify it, rewrite it, port it or put the (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Track Designer Registry
 
(...) Run under linux? music to my ears... Rather than move to .NET would you (Matt) consider moving it to a more cross-platform system, such as Java? --Bill. (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)

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