> > Wich is your prefered list today? > Can be made same works for give speed to a particular compiler > and write "Optimized for mingw" (only for example)
But it's not in fact optimized for MingW. This is a multicompiler project, we can only recommend, but not decide on behalf of the users. We can only make suggestion to enhance their final result. There are many factors, so even this isn't always obvious. Preferred list: MSVC 2008, MSVC 2005, MingW/GCC 4.x, OpenWatcom. [ BCC only to do quick draft Harbour builds and to clean code from warnings/errors. ] > for example resolve problem of missing high quality dlmalloc, ptmalloc > allocators in mingw? For Harbour it doesn't really matter as Harbour uses dlmalloc anyway, and we just use a very small number of C RTL calls, even less is allocating memory. And we're trying to get rid of those gradually (see hb_snprintf()). > > The benefit is of the users' for the most part, Harbour's > > benefit is some potential quality image gain, by > > picking and supporting good quality, standard external > > tools. > Tools for adeveloper will be are ide and a library > Wich are your suggestion for windows/harbour? I'm very old fashioned and I'm not using an IDE. [ but not old fashioned enough to use VI/VIM/EMACS :) ] So I'm using Far Manager + internal editor + command line tools, not even the debugger. I'd be nice to have something like Visual Studio for Harbour, but so far I've seen none which would actually enhance productivity (meaning being quick, with good editor and well-integrated with the language - syntax highlighting and "intellisense"). Eclipse is the logical choice to integrate Harbour with. Dunno what it takes though. Maybe there'll be something lighter on the scene. At least half point of these IDEs are the integrated UI design tools, and for Harbour, this is problematic until it doesn't have a native GUI API + class. > From a development POV, all this doesn't really matter, > > as it's highly unlikely that support for any of the widely > > used compilers would suddenly be dropped. This wouldn't > > make any sense anyway, since this is an OSS project. > > Sorry for my ingorance > What is oss? Open Source Software (similar is FOSS, FLOSS). Brgds, Viktor
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