<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Marsden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmarsden@fastmail.fm">jmarsden@fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Probably. Proprietary development environments like this are just not<br>
often seen as critical targets for open source tools, I would think. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Especially when it's not really clear what the benefits of MSVC and<br>
Borland over gcc would be at the end of the day... will the resulting<br>
app work differently? Better? Faster? Or is this just a matter of<br>
personal choice for the developer?</blockquote></div>MSVC is (I believe) faster, produces smaller and faster executables, etc. <br>BPBible sword bindings are compiled with MSVC.<br><br>Additionally, MSYS and (I believe) Cygwin are horrible environments to try to use... (I haven't used Cygwin, but I have used MSYS)<br>
<br clear="all">God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br> in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br>
in the valley of decision.<br><br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV)<br><br>