Re: Committing Resources to Win32

Claudio Natoli wrote:

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>Hello there,
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>> I have arranged to have 1 full time dedicated programmer to the Win32
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>port.
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>That's fantastic. I've been trying to arrange the same thing at my
>company...
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I agree, it's great.

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>> Specifically, I believe and through conversations with several Win32
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>programmers I know, that using create process is a bad idea and that we
>should move to a threaded model (at least for Win32).
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>CreateProcess appears to be the method the core developers have decided
>upon. Unfortunately, and speaking from experience, unless either the
>decision to use MingW as a build environment is reviewed (as opposed to
>VC++, for instance), or MingW "soon" supports thread local storage
>declspecs, a threaded implementation would be just too difficult to
>integrate cleanly with the existing source base.
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The requirement is that we can build with opensource tools. I'm quite
prepared to buy the (cheap version of) VC++, but only as a last resort.

cheers

andrew