Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Maria Giordano
-Messaggio Originale- Da: "Viktor Szakáts" A: "Harbour Project Main Developer List." Data invio: mercoledì 25 febbraio 2009 23.17 Oggetto: Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal Personally I used hbwhat only for SetErrorMode() that I just replaced with a

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
My opinion is the same as last year. hbdoc and also the docs we have in their current format is a dead end. It's not the goal of this project to develop a documentation tool, so ideally we should choose an existing tool, convert what we have, and delete hbdoc. This needs a one time effort and cont

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Massimo Belgrano
What do you think about hbdoc? Other old module in black list? 2009/2/25 Viktor Szakáts : > Thanks for the feedback to all. > It seem we agree on disabling it now, and keeping it > for reference, and also to encourage 3rd parties to give > feedback on whether they use it or not. AFAIK no "major" >

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Thanks for the feedback to all. It seem we agree on disabling it now, and keeping it for reference, and also to encourage 3rd parties to give feedback on whether they use it or not. AFAIK no "major" 3rd party needs it, but let's hear them words. Notice however that if we keep it in repository, it

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Francesco Saverio Giudice
Hi Przemek, Il 25/02/2009 22.33, Przemyslaw Czerpak ha scritto: if someone is interested then I can add to HVM support for sending messages to pointer items. At least on C level. if you find spare time to add it will be useful. TIA Best regards, Francesco __

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Pritpal Bedi wrote: Hi Pritpal, > Przemek, Mindaugus can surely come up with same solution but > with better internal overhaul of the concept so that the potential > "dangers" discussed can be reduced to bare minimum. I'm not against the idea of creating some .prg level cod

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Pritpal Bedi
Hello Francesco Francesco Saverio Giudice wrote: > > BTW I'm locked on structure handling. Without a solution on it or > without a standardization on passing values it will be a stopping point > in hbwin developing. > I have tried Przemek's proposal, but it's very difficult to handling > par

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Pritpal Bedi
Viktor Here I endorse Francesco's observation. What32 has always been an inspiration to me, and probably for some others also. Whatever I could do till date on Windows platform is due to What32 only. It is always a source of references whenever I need one. So I strongly resist that it should

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Francesco Saverio Giudice
Hi Viktor, Il 25/02/2009 17.04, Viktor Szakáts ha scritto: Hi all, hbwhat was a notorious build-breaker since it has been added, and despite the efforts trying to fix it, it still is. Since it has no real users either, we miss feedback and besides making it build, we cannot be sure it even

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Przemyslaw Czerpak
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote: Hi, > hbwhat was a notorious build-breaker since it has been > added, and despite the efforts trying to fix it, it still is. [...] > So, I'd like to propose to remove it from the repository. > Any objections or opinions on that? I'd suggest to disable t

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Massimo Belgrano
Ok for me I suggest think now which other library are in same situation so not wasting time for in future abandon 2009/2/25 Viktor Szakáts : > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Massimo Belgrano > wrote: >> >> What about maintain hbwhat only for win32 platform? >> will  takes few efforts to mainta

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Massimo Belgrano wrote: > What about maintain hbwhat only for win32 platform? > will takes few efforts to maintain it? It took a huge effort from my side, with _no_ benefit, and I mean not just no benefit for me, because I don't need it at all, but no benefit fo

Re: [Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Massimo Belgrano
What about maintain hbwhat only for win32 platform? will takes few efforts to maintain it? 2009/2/25 Viktor Szakáts : > Hi all, > hbwhat was a notorious build-breaker since it has been > added, and despite the efforts trying to fix it, it still is. > Since it has no real users either, we miss fe

[Harbour] Proposing hbwhat for removal

2009-02-25 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi all, hbwhat was a notorious build-breaker since it has been added, and despite the efforts trying to fix it, it still is. Since it has no real users either, we miss feedback and besides making it build, we cannot be sure it even works. Since there were several bugs found in it, and no one fixed