Dozen versions of Linux but not even one has decent file manager. I have some respect to open source community but I have to say. Do you really think he will abandon Windows version for (ex.) a year just to make few users happy? And now think about time for porting to other environment (and language, probably). Last thing: take a look how long it took to deliver (still in private beta) Unicode version of Total Commander. If I was on his place I would rather buy some solutions, instead of using GPL ones. He wrote somewhere that he has different Delphi versions but developed TC under 2.0 because of speed and less code overload from IDE. A lot of controls has been completely rewritten by him.
Even now Christian is not using VCL only. It might be bad because you'll never know when (and how) will it backfire. It doesn't mean you have to release the TC sourcecode, just the part of the wxVCL that you altered and improved. Maybe you don't need to change anything at all and in that case you don't need to share. In server environments TC is not needed because Midnight Commander is good enough and there are lot of tools which can work even better.Īnother thing: TC works under Wine and AFAIK Christian wants to make it more compatible with it.īIGPILOT wrote:ad 2: Why is that such a bad thing? You are using a product someone else's hard work. precious time for new features taken to implement old ones again,Ĭomparing to Windows, Linux market share for desktops is similar to none. Complete waste of time IMHO because of two main reasons:ġ. I don't know the answer for such question but even if. On the other side this is GUI software so the question is: does Linux have standard interface similar to WinAPI or should author choose between QT, GTK or something else? TC is Windows file manager and it means it uses a lot of Windows specific functions.
I know advantages of C++ but rewriting an application from one language into another does not mean portability. Not so with Delphi, which died years ago. "you have to give the changes (of the wxVCL library code) back to the community"Īd 1 You can see the advantage of C++ right here, you can use it on almost any platform and it's widely supported.
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