Viktor:
Thanks Roberto. I think though, that this still isn't a
complete Harbour distro, as its missing crucial parts as
hbmk2, hbrun, hbi18n, .dlls and INSTALL doc. Which means
the even the most important pointers and tools are missing
which are used as a starting point in normal Harbour usage
and support.
I not agree.
IMHO, HMG IS NOT a Harbour distribution.
HMG is an xBase Windows-GUI development system that uses Harbour as
xBase compiler.
I've preferred Harbour over other compilers for a lot of reasons, but
eventually (if conditions changes) it could be replaced for any other
freely redistributable one.
Anyhow now it's at least possible to replace
bundled Harbour with an official distro, which is good,
but for me it seems that giving support for the bundled
one is not easily possible yet.
One of the features of HMG is to be compact. The official distro is
plenty of things that are usually not needed for HMG users (that
eventually could download the full Harbour distro if needed).
All Harbour and contrib libraries are 'intact' (exactly as are
distributed). The same applies for 'harbour.exe' and basic docs. So,
bugs in Harbour compiler found by HMG users should be not a problem for
Harbour developers.
In the technical side:
I've attempted to include and use HMBK2 in HMG but I've faced a serious
problem.
Report and forms in HMG can be in separate text files that can be
included in prgs.
The problem is that we use commands to do that, that are translated by
PP to #includes.
So, HBMK do not recognize them as include files and changes do not force
recompilation of prgs.
Regards,
Roberto.
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