Tim,
That's one goal, and an important one. In my case I've been with the project for so long (about 17 years!!!, and if memory serves you've been on it just about as long) I have another purpose. Fractint is one of the longest running open source programs ever, and if it can continue to be usable and provide pleasure to people, I take a certain pride in that. In addition, I one of the big
A big what? 8-))
What would make me sad is leaving behind any significant functionality, or having the program be rendered unusable by the onrushing of technology, which quite frankly I expected a long time ago, but it hasn't quite happened yet.
The only Fractint feature I can't use on my new laptop is the sound card related stuff. But, I haven't been able to use the sound card stuff for years. It hasn't worked on any computers I've owned since the one I used to work on it originally. I am currently restructuring the WinFract source to match what is in CVS. The brain dead nmake is getting in the way. It doesn't handle recursive calls very well. You are supposed to be able to use the /V option to make it remember the macro definitions, but it doesn't work. Ideally, what I want to have is one make file that is called from two different batch files (makefrac.bat and makewin.bat). The problem comes in with the subdirectories. I'm having to fight the same battles I had to get the code to compile originally. Which doesn't make sense since it's the same source files put in different directories. And, strangely, I didn't change the original file, so the problem has to be in a header file or the compilation settings. Jonathan