[Scribus] Windows is evil

[Keith Lancaster]

I have to disagree completely. While I am now doing mostly Java 
development and some C/C++ in the Linux environment, I worked as a 
commercial C/C++ software developer / architect using MSVC for many 
years. They may have been late to the table in getting templates in 
place, but the development environment is light-years ahead of what is 
available in the unix / Linux / Java world. I am no fan of MS, but they 
put substantial work into their dev tools and it shows. I know I am 
probably not making friends here, but I've not seen ANY tool, open 
source or not, that comes close to the MSVC dev environment for rapid 
development and debugging.

That said, are you porting it using QT, writing it using Win32, or 
making the shift to .NET? I've talked to a number of developers that had 
trouble with the QT libs on Windows.

Keith

Paul wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I don't think I need to say much more than that. If you ever have to
>move to the darkside to piddle about with MSVC++, resist. It is awful.
>Templates are screwed, optimisation means "slow the bugger down" and "a
>quick and simple hack" can mean up to 3 days work to get it compile!
>
><shudders>
>
>Other than that, the Windows native port is coming along.
>
>TTFN
>
>Paul
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