Re: Digital Mars C++ - Clients

"Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote in message
news:200407081648(dot)i68GmYd22718(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us(dot)(dot)(dot)
> Walter wrote:
> >
> > "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote in message
> > news:200407052015(dot)i65KFWn13238(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us(dot)(dot)(dot)
> > >
> > > Uh, I have never heard of Digital Mars C++. I see it here though:
> > >
> > > http://www.digitalmars.com/
> > >
> > > Having never had anyone who uses it, it seems this patch would be
better
> > > kept where users of digital Mars could find it, like on their ftp
> > > server. I don't think there enough usage of Digital Mars for us to
> > > adjust our source code at this time. Do you agree?
> >
> > Check out the www.download.com download statistics for DMC++, which is
just
> > one portal one can download it from:
> >
> > http://www.download.com/sort/3150-2069-0-1-5.html?
>
> Looks good, but we have had no requests for it prior to this, and your
> additions aren't trivial. You also mentioned it doesn't have popen,
> meaning it might still be in a state of flux, meaning we would have to
> continue adjusting our patch --- for a compiler no one has asked about.

Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema, who wrote the patch, is not affiliated with Digital
Mars. But it's been my experience that any requests for a feature tend to be
a tiny tip of the iceberg, 99% will just silently walk away from your
product if it doesn't do X. And you *do* have a request, from someone who
obviously cared enough to write a non-trivial patch for your product.

Other products, such as wxWindows, have seen quite a lot of Digital Mars
users embrace it once it started supporting DMC++.

-Walter
www.digitalmars.com free C/C++/D compilers