[pmmail-list] OS/2 PMMail issues

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:17:36 +0100 (CET), Frank Winkler @home wrote:

>Please allow one question which has been running through my mind for some time 
>now when following the discussion about the common code base. Apparently, 
>PMView/2 is still under development (?) and is as application born on the OS/2 
>platform being ported to Billy-OS afterwards. Is it right that with v2 Peter 
>introduced a portable code which is easy to maintain for both worlds?
>PMMail also has an OS/2 cradle and was ported very mch later. If the code is 
>now being rewritten anyway, why can't it be made portable in the same manner as 
>PMView is? And from my point of view, it's much more difficult to write an 
>OS-independent code for an application like PMView (which makes heavy use of 
>system-specific calls and graphic libraries) that it is for a standard 
>application like an email client (which mostly implements standard protocols). 
>So I have some difficulties in understanding the real problem ...

I think the real problem is that Peter isn't working on PMMail full-time ...
But rather in fits-and-starts ... Plus more importantly ...

PMView is his baby ... from the ground-up ...
PMMail was Bob and Ike's ... So he's working on totally unfamiliar code ...

And from what I hear that's a VERY differcult situation ... working on someone elses code ...

Greg

Greg

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