Garrett Serack:
So, what'd I'd like to do is get an exhaustive list of projects that use Scintilla (the list on the website looks … incomplete) —both commercial and open source, and see if there are things you think I could help arrange, I could certainly see what I can do.
A couple of higher profile users were included recently: TortoiseSVN and Adobe's ExtendScript Toolkit. The hassle in maintaining the related page is in projects that fade away. I have added the projects from Chris and Anthony.
If licenses for Windows is needed, yes, I can produce those. ... I've already offered Neil an MSDN Subscription, as I feel that Scintilla is an important project to help. I'm resisting the temptation to do a whole-lot of one-offs, as I'm trying to find ways to scale the benefits I can provide to the community.
MSDN would be useful to me but with open source projects its better to make resources available to casual contributors. Its difficult to code and test on platforms other than what you have installed. I no longer test with Windows 95 and don't have 64-bit Vista installed either so it doesn't get tested. Microsoft could make virtual machine images available with different operating system versions and tool chains to anyone that wants to work on open source projects. VMWare images would be best but Virtual PC may work. Performance limitations and general use hassles will discourage use of these images as replacements for Windows licenses but they may need further crippling to get this approved. Another approach to this is to offer build and test farms over the net. An open source project can upload a source distribution and set of unit tests which are then farmed out to different platforms and the results mailed back to the originator. Since these can run in parallel, you'll get results quickly. On top of that add a way to initiate nightly with fresh checkouts. Neil _______________________________________________ Scintilla-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scintilla-interest
