From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Can we vote on letting RSXNTDJ rest in peace?
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Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:10:40 +1000
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OK, here's the deal. I find it silly for me to waste my time and get
Rainer's permission to distribute a new version of RSXNTDJ to fix all of its
annoying, time-destroying (oh, new word :-) problems.

I say we boycot RSXNTDJ and refer anyone who asks about it in the future to
Mumit Kahn's distribution of Mingw32. For those of you who don't know it,
Mingw32 is an actively developed port of GCC to Windows. It produces native
Win32 GUI and console apps. You can also use OpenGL, DirectX, Glide and
anything else that comes to mind with a minimal of hassle. With Anders
Norlander's Win32 headers, it is always up to date with the current
Microsoft counterparts.

RSXNTDJ, on the other hand, is not being actively maintained, it's headers
are falling apart from age, and it has too many annoyingly simple-to-fix
problems to make it just not worth the hassle. From what we've seen, the
author (Rainer), doesn't read this newsgroup, doesn't care much that he put
a buggy release of his package out there, and doesn't seem interested in
fixing the problems.

I say we move on and stop dwelling on RSXNTDJ's potential. Yes, it could
potentially be a very good package, but it's not. The idea was there, but
the commitment was not.

This is not hate mail. I applaud Rainer for his gallant effort, but I'm
disappointed with his complete loss of interest.

So, I'm ready (and from what I gather, others are too) to start using
Mingw32 as our free win32 compiler and forget about RSXNTDJ. Forever...

Please post your opinion. Please don't flame me, this is only my opinion and
does not need to be accepted by everyone else. But I'm moving on, and so
should you.

Cheers,

--
Johan Venter
ICQ 3643877
surf.to/djgppig

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