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Dear Alexander,
First we'd like to thank you very much for your contributions.
Second, there is work being done towards unicode support (90%
completed). Someone in Fyodor Tkachov's group promised to take care of
the missing portion. Further, our compiler specialist will implement the
necessary compiler changes as soon as possible.
However, please understand that it is not possible for us to state a
fixed release date, as our time budget is limited by (non-BlackBox)
project work.
Best Regards,
Thomas
Oberon microsystems AG
+41 (0)44 445 17 51
www.oberon.ch
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Iljin [mailto:ajsoft{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Montag, 11. September 2006 07:44
To: Oberon microsystems AG, Tech-Support
Subject: Re[2]: [BlackBox] - Problem solved again
Hello, Tech-Support!
>> PS: I wish someone competent from OM would join us in this
>> discussion...
OmATS> Thank you very much indeed for you contributions. Unfortunately,
OmATS> we are quite committed to other projects at the moment. This is
OmATS> one of the major reasons why we released BlackBox as open source
OmATS> software. But anyways, we will read and study every email on the
OmATS> mailinglist -- albeit with a certain time delay.
I humbly ask your attention.
I've heard some rumors that "BlackBox 1.6 will, possibly, fully
support
unicode" (i.e. use WinApi.xxxW functions everywhere instead of
WinApi.xxxA functions).
So, I'd like to ask:
1) Is there any new release of BlackBox planned?
2) Is there any work being done towards unicode support?
I'm particularly interested in answer to the second question,
because if the answer is "yes", I think it would be better to
coordinate our efforts. I made a fix to HostDialog module (published
in mail list). Recently I discovered several valuable fixes in
"Service Pack" at blackbox.metasystems.ru (the ones about unicode
support, not russification).
If you are doing any work in the same direction, you become the
third source of fixes. Are you going to coordinate them and merge
into one package? Or maybe I should do that?
The really important questions for me are:
1) Should I continue to add unicode support?
2) Should I collect patches into one package?
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Alexander
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