[Harbour] Out-of-Box usable Harbour Distribution with XMate Project Builder

[Viktor Szakáts]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Massimo Belgrano <mbelgrano at deltain.it>wrote:

> I think that bcc is the most used in windows platform not the best


No serious compilers on the free (and non-free) software marked
use BCC. It's a historical thing that Harbour picked it up (*), and
developers followed suit 10 years ago and stuck with it since then.

[ (*) With reason, as 10 years ago this was pretty much the first
mainstream and usable compiler to go free, GCC just began
to gain acceptance and maturity with version 2.95, but it was
much slower on the computers of that time. Times have changed,
and none of these advantages are relevant anymore. ]


> same library are ready only for bcc like sqlrdd,mediator, ecc
> so i agree with a tool ready to use for bcc user like me


Mediator is also available for MSVC. Binary distributions for
Windows usually support MSVC and MingW these days,
sometimes Borland, but it's fading.

Anyhow above two packages show exactly why closed
commercial products can tie developer's hand, even if they
are otherwise good and useful ones.

Brdgs,
Viktor
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