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- Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
- >
- > We are doing everything in our power to get Executor 2 out the door
- > ASAP. We can not work on a native OS/2 port until after Executor 2 is
- > shipping. It is true that we have slipped significantly and for this
- > I apologize and am working hard to see that we don't slip much more.
- >
- > Today we decided that there will be no 1.99r; after 1.99q12 is
- > released we will finish beta 0 and begin work on beta 1.
- >
- > >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Wing <doug_wing@il.us.swissbank.com> writes:
- > In article <9603230019.AA02168@ch1d92iwk> Doug Wing <doug_wing@il.us.swissbank.com> writes:
- >
- > >> I just have to respond to all of the OS/2 people saying that
- > >> an OS/2 port would be the best thing for ARDI to do...
- > >>
- > >> While I like OS/2, own it (though I'm not currently running
- > >> it...) and think that it should be much more widespread than it
- > >> is. I don't agree that ARDI should put a priority to porting
- > >> Executor to OS/2.
- >
- > Doug> If you add up the total Linux users and Nextstep users they
- > Doug> still total less than OS/2 users.
- >
- > We do all our development under Linux, so the incremental cost of a
- > Linux port is nil. We have had to spend a little more time on packing
- > our internal Linux port, but even that was a very small amount of
- > time. The bug reports we receive from our Linux users have more than
- > made up for this amount of time already because, since Linux is our
- > normal development environment, bugs reported under E/L are easier to
- > track down and 9 times out of 10 the same bugs occur in E/L and E/NS,
- > anyway.
- >
- > Our first commercial release was Executor for NEXTSTEP. Due to this,
- > a large portion of our customer base is NEXTSTEP users. When we added
- > color support, our NEXTSTEP port broke, so we did actually have to
- > spend a little bit of time reporting Executor to NEXTSTEP, but that
- > time was less than what a totally new port would take, since Mat,
- > Cotton and I are already proficient NEXTSTEP programmers.
- >
- > Doug> Win95 still runs on top
- > Doug> of DOS, so a Win95 does not seem as critical as an OS/2
- > Doug> port. E/D runs on DOS as does Win95. There is only one
- > Doug> DOS/Win program I run and that is Executor. I had to turn
- > Doug> DOS support on to run E/D and will be glad to turn support
- > Doug> off as soon as I can.
- >
- > Win 95 / Win NT users will profit from having a native port, just like
- > OS/2 users will profit from having a native port. We do not have the
- > resources to do either port yet. All future porting decisions will be
- > made after Executor 2 ships.
- >
- I haven't been folling this thread for long, but nobody has mentioned
- DAX, so I might as well.
-
- DAX, the Developer API Extentions for OS/2 are a port of about 90% of
- the WIN32 api to OS2, and are availible now from IBM.
-
- If ARDI decides to do an OS2 port, this might be a good place to
- start.
-
- Joseph
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