eiffelroom - Poll - Comments

Thank you

zsimic — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:56:00 -0700

Thank you very much. That tool works very well. Fast and accurate.

Tool to convert

manus_eiffel — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:12:06 -0700

I've put a tool at http://eiffelstudio.origo.ethz.ch/download to update your classes to the new syntax.

Yes

zsimic — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:26:02 -0700

Voted 'yes' because I do have lots of code using ~, but I think it would be very easy to get rid of all those ~ notations quickly and painlessly.

Nothing really changed

manus_eiffel — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:44:07 -0700

In 6.0, the layout is the same as in 5.7. In 6.1, it is slightly different but not that much. Are you saying that when starting up of EiffelStudio it flashes a lot? From what I experienced it is not really worse than in 5.7 but I've always used it on a local display.

I want 5.7

schoelle — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:46:23 -0700

Where is 5.7 as an option? I do not like docks, specially under Linux where you can literally see them being drawn.

Use newer, better, technologies

Meor100 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:11:43 -0700

We should be using currently available tools, such as internet forum packages, that provide the exact services we are requesting. Posting messages in to message threads and possibly having other people post their input in the thread.

Mailing lists and news groups are old technology that do not present information to the user in a convinient way. Everything that news groups and mailing lists can do, can be done by forums in addition to many new things that may or may not be of interest to the poster.

Some have said that there's no reason to post HTML, other formatted text, or graphics, however, that is not a reason to exclude the ability for someone to add such information to a discussion.

At the moment Windows SDK is

manus_eiffel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:34 -0800

At the moment Windows SDK is a better choice because it is exactly the same C compiler than the one included in VS 2005 and it is completely free.

This is a limitation of the

manus_eiffel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:04 -0800

This is a limitation of the poll engine we are using. You should select the one you are really using. If you are still using VC++ 6.0 for compatibility with newer compiler from Microsoft, you should not check it. The goal of this poll is to see who is really using VC++ 6.0 for himself, not for others.

Multiple Choice

saunders — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0800

I have Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and the Vista SDK installed. The newest version of 6.0 appears to be using cl from the SDK. I don't know, but wonder if the compiler from 2005 would be a better choice.

I think the poll should have

berend — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:59:22 -0800

I think the poll should have been a checkbox. I'm still using VC++ 6.0 as well for example.

The only 64-bit compiler

manus_eiffel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:19:04 -0800

The only 64-bit compiler available for free is the Microsoft one, unfortunately we cannot redistribute it.

True, that is indeed a

schoelle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:41:57 -0800

True, that is indeed a problem that I had not noticed. Is there a 64 bit variant of the borland compiler? MinGW might still be a replacement for Borland on the 32-bit platform (which will not go away too soon).

MingW

manus_eiffel — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:44:34 -0800

I guess we should give it a try, but we are looking at 64-bit C compiler and on Windows GCC is only 32-bit, at least last time I checked.

MinGW

schoelle — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:41:27 -0800

http://www.mingw.org/ - we are already using GCC on any other platform than Windows, why not on Windows directly?