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echo: os2prog
to: Brian Haeffner
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1996-02-10 17:06:08
subject: DAPIE is useless?

PF>  MW> One thing I've been wondering about regarding DAPIE; PF> 
MW> what about MFC? Are there any problems recompiling MFC PF> 
MW> with DAPIE?
PF> 
PF> It does not support MFC (this is a feature,  not a bug ). PF> 
PF> At ColoradOS/2,  they polled developers about dapie 
PF> features that people wanted -- MFC was not a popular choice.

 BH> Excuse me.  Guys.  What's the point of providing a means of porting
 BH> Windows apps to OS/2 without supporting the most-used C++ class library
 BH> for Windows apps?

Says you....I think OWL is actually used more.

I don't like either of them.

I do expect MFC to be supported -- or at least all of the Win32 apis
required for you to compile it yourself -- in the not to distant future.


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