Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-26 Thread Massimo Belgrano
I totaly agree with your path all all BCC/owatcom users will easy recompile harbour from source better having userbase focaluzed on Two compiler that give more reliability to entire project 2009/3/26 Viktor Szakáts : >> Hi agree about importance of give a choice and agree mingw/msvc path >> can w

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-26 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> > Hi agree about importance of give a choice and agree mingw/msvc path > can we follow Minigui that include harbour & MinGW to be ready to use > for windows platform? I don't know MiniGUI, so I cannot tell. What is possible though is to provide such a binary distribution which is based on Min

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-26 Thread Massimo Belgrano
Hi agree about importance of give a choice and agree mingw/msvc path can we follow Minigui that include harbour & MinGW to be ready to use for windows platform? it can be a strong messages for third parties libraries we can cooperate (divide effort) with minigui project and distribute/promote any

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-26 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Yes, it's a problem, particularly when a lib is binary only. The most affected platform is Windows, where there are plenty of compilers with multiple CPUs, Unicode/non-Unicode, C/C++ mode, plus - thank god... - WinCE. Part of my effort is to find the "best" C compiler for Harbour. We've started fr

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Phil Barnett
Viktor Szakáts wrote: There are a few issue with Harbour 3rd party libs in general (talking about open source ones for now): 1) Each has a different make system, which means each of them has to be learned, built and locally maintained in a completely different way. 2) These make systems and

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi Chen, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chen Kedem wrote: > Viktor, > > What I don't understand, is why should 3rd party lib, > or wrapper functions to such lib should be the concern > of CORE Harbour? It's not a concern for core Harbour it's a concern for Harbour users. I expect much of fut

RE: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Chen Kedem
Viktor, What I don't understand, is why should 3rd party lib, or wrapper functions to such lib should be the concern of CORE Harbour? I am NOT talking about: 1) Not helping such external library dev team. 2) Not fixing bugs. 3) Missing API issues. (I might not explain myself very good with all t

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi Chen and All, One more thought to your e-mail. Integration of 3rd party *Harbour* libs into Harbour SVN, while this is off-topic regarding my first mail, and while I don't think the situation is that bad, because we've only added hbsqlit3 as a formerly existing independent 3rd party lib to our

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Thanks Petr. This way we will be able to use the non-amalgamation version which would resolve the compile error experienced with some compilers (owatcom < 1.8, dmc). Brgds, Viktor On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Petr Chornyj wrote: > > > > Viktor Szakáts wrote: > > > > As a first step I'd just

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-25 Thread Petr Chornyj
Viktor Szakáts wrote: > > As a first step I'd just propose to move sqlite3 embedded source tree > into the 3rd dir and lay the foundation for this direction, in this sense > this sence just a cleanup, and later we can think about adding some other > stuff, > if we agree on and if this works out

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-24 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi Chen, You're right the scope widens. Updating 3rd party stuff in Harbour isn't a terribly difficult job (most of the time), at least for those projects I had in mind adding, which is just a few. To keep things under control, IMO we should only add really basic libs, which are dependencies of man

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-24 Thread Chen Kedem
Viktor, > I'd welcome opinions from everyone. Personally I don't think we should add every 3rd party library in the market to the Harbour repository. There are endless features out there that are "nice to have", but not every such tool need to have wrapper functions in this project. Look at th

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-23 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> > Il 23/03/2009 17.27, Viktor Szakáts ha scritto: > >> I'd like to propose a way to add 3rd party code to Harbour in an organized >> way. >> > > very interesting subject. > AFAIR SVN should permits to handle external projects. > I have seen this in other projects, but in this moment I don't recal

Re: [Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-23 Thread Francesco Saverio Giudice
Hi Viktor, Il 23/03/2009 17.27, Viktor Szakáts ha scritto: I'd like to propose a way to add 3rd party code to Harbour in an organized way. very interesting subject. AFAIR SVN should permits to handle external projects. I have seen this in other projects, but in this moment I don't recall any

[Harbour] Embedding 3rd party projects

2009-03-23 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi All, I'd like to propose a way to add 3rd party code to Harbour in an organized way. We already have zlib and pcre in core, and sqlite3 in contrib. In the first pass (or even at all) I wouldn't like to touch zlib and pcre in this respect, but for sqlite3 and some other potential libs like