OK guys. I've been thinking a lot about our discussions and I agree that you're right. I was selfish in looking at my own derired outcomes but as a member of a team we should try to keep a single base source together. I agree that we should do incremental improvements so we all stay in synch. This is what I'll do: 1. Get WINFract working on 32 bit memory model for WIN32. 2. As far as possible within the limitations of windows, get the functionality up to 20.2.4. 3. Add 16 bit colour 4. Add a couple of other ideas I've got in mind. I will do minimal changes to the original XFRACT source and then only via #ifdef WIN32 and send the full sources to Jonathan for synchronisation after each of the previous 4 steps. Any experimental code I'll develop into ManpWIN. I'll start from scratch so as to keep the origianl code as pure as I can. Give me some time. Regards, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers Central Coast Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: <http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Osuch" <osuchj@avalon.net> To: <fractdev@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Requst info on FRACTINT Variables for 8 bit to True colour conversion On Thursday 18 April 2002 08:44 pm, PHD wrote:
I do disagree because there is not a lot of benefit to just porting to WINDOWS. I already ahve a true colour version which works ok on 1/2 pass. This was also the motivation behind MANPWin. I think 32 bit and true colour are more urgent than getting functionality up to 20.2.4. It may be worth while (but dangerous) to keep winows stream separate from the LINUX stream but I am very reluctant to start a new branch if it is not required.
The benefit would be that you would know what was broken if it didn't work. Was it one of the true color changes or is the port messed up? There are an awful lot of lines of code to go through if you have no idea what or where the problem is. Been there, done that. Keep doing it, and I don't like it! Even if all you do is the port, when you send it to me, the chances are real good that it won't work under Linux. And, I won't have any idea where the problem is. See above. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Fractdev mailing list Fractdev@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractdev