[pmmail-list] Update from Peter Nielsen

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:06:41, Paul Hodges wrote:

I wonder if Peter's efforts are being directed at the Win32 code only ???
Or if he's re-writing everything including the OS/2 version ...

I figure if he's redoing ALL the code then maybe the OS/2 version will achieve some semblance of parity with the Win32 version ...
(I know, I know ... I'm dreaming ... But Peter's PMView is so GOOD I just have to think that PMMail/2 still stands a chance)

Greg

>I thought that this message from Peter on the pmview-beta list should
>be copied here :-)
>
>Paul Hodges
>QBS Software Ltd
>
>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:12:57 +0200 (EET), pnielsen@tuug.fi wrote:
>
>>> I know this is not the place for PMMail related messages (BTW, it will
>>> be great if you join the PMMail mailing list), but there's something I
>>> have to say about this new beta. It seems to me that memory managament
>>> on this new version is much better than the previous one. The ninth
>>> beta was taking over 10 MB of memory whilst this new beta uses about 6
>>> MB.
>>
>>:-) That's nice to hear. In this version I've started the tedious work of 
>>rewriting the old 1980's C-style code that makes PMMail. I guess one of the 
>>most obvious problems with the original Southsoft code is that it leaks 
>>memory like nothing I have seen before. This is not strange considering the 
>>coding style. A good and simple example: string handling is heavily based 
>>on "strdup", often without "free", thus it eats memory all the time until 
>>it has eaten up all your memory...
>>
>>The Southsoft guys knew how to make a real nice user interface, but 
>>software design and robustness was definitely not their primary interest. 
>>PMMail 3.0 will be something entirely different in this area. You can bet 
>>on that! (Maybe I should be writing code for NASA?... ;-)
>>
>>FWIW, In this PMMail beta I've replaced about 10% of the original code (an 
>>estimate). 
>>
>>Unfortunately I have to go back to focussing on BMT Micro's e-business now, 
>>however, we hope that by July everything will be running smoothly in this 
>>area and I will be able to get back to PMMail (and PMView) 100%! (Don't 
>>worry, I will try to get some time to work on PMView and PMMail every once 
>>in a while before that!)
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Peter
>
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