On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:25:48 -0700 Kurt Granroth wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2004 02:06 pm, mike hoy wrote: > > Are any of you pluggers familiar with IrfanView? It's > > a small graphics program currently only available on > > windows. Well since I recently switched over to Linux > > I wanted my irfan view back. But it wasn't available > > in linux so I emailed the developer and he says. > > 'porting can be difficult'. Basically he is interested > > in making a linux version but has some general > > questions and I'm sure eventually some very technical > > questions. > > Not trying to shoot down your idea, but the IrfanView author is 100% right; > porting applications to be cross platform can be exceedingly difficult if the > app wasn't written to be xplatform in the first place. It all depends on how > OS-specific the original code is. Any program having anything to do with > graphics tend to be *very* OS-specific. > > Now if he wrote IrfanView using mostly pure C/C++ (with no Win extensions) and > all of his sublibraries are also written in some pure (or close to pure) > language, then it might be doable. I doubt it since it's dealing with image > manipulations which normally means using lots of OS-specific image writing > calls. > > Now if he's serious about attempting a port, then any decent LUG should be > able to help him out with specific questions. I wouldn't expect that he'd > get *any* direct help (contributing code) since IrfanView isn't Open Source > and not too many people will work on non-Open Source projects without getting > paid. > > Your best bet might be to run IrfanView in wine and see if it works... > > Kurt I agree with Kurt. Besides there are plenty of F/OSS equivalents to Irfanview. GQview is a nice one as are gThumb, GView, IV. Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss