[Texmacs-dev] Re: C++'s frustrations

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Henri Lesourd wrote:
>  Probably under Linux it works most of the time,

_always_

>  and under windows
>  it's more often broken:

MSVC is really the defacto standard (KDE, python, LyX, etc all use it). 
I don't see the problem here. In any case, I think, but I am not sure, 
Borland and Intel compilers are compatible while Mingw's g++-3.2 is not 
(not sure about recent version of g++). So yes, I think that choosing 
either MSVC or Mingw would be a hard requirement for plugin  developer. 
Or you can just see those two compilers as two different platforms and 
deliver a TeXMacs binary for both. That is exactly what the KDE on 
Windows people do by the way.

>  Or perhaps do you have some other interesting new information about
>  C++ which could cure my doubts ?

I hope my argument above did so. I don't think that imposing a compiler 
for plugin development is a very hard requirement, especially nowadays 
where you can have free (as in beer) compiler on all platforms.

Abdel.