BS>> Could somebody give me a short briefing, what the future plans is
 BS>> of Maximus?

For me (the one other person than Scott registered on the Source Forge
site), the goal is to get the code running on a Linux (or other freely
distributable Unix like) platform while maintaining my OS/2 capability
while I transition.  I'd like to keep it running on the current supported
platforms at the same time.  The 16-bit versions are likely to be dropped,
but I'm not 100% sure yet.

 NW> Maximus is now Open Source and the project is hosted on
 NW> sourceforge.net.

 BS> Yeah i know so :)

 BS>> I remember somebody wrote about a plain 32bit version, but then
 BS>> will it be started?

I've played some with it.....  

 NW> Last time I looked, there seemed to be only one person, apart from
 NW> Scott Dudley, involved in the project and no work being done. :-(

 BS> That was my impression too. But what is the problem, 
 BS> about developing it? Time problems? License problems? ..

Time is the main crunch.  There are no license problems that I know of with
the code at this time.  

I am trying to get things to compile under both OS/2 and Linux.  I was
hoping for a quick compile using the Open Watcom compiler under OS/2. 
Unfortunately, the make sub-system that drives all the various compiles has
been a bit touchy for me.  DMake is not properly working for me under OS/2.
 I haven't pulled the tools together to try to compile under a Windows box
to test out the DMake setup there.  Scott last compiled the code on a
Windows based box, and using older versions of the Watcom compiler.

At this point, I need to update my open watcom compiler again.  And if I'm
going to develope on a Windows box, I've got a number of tools I have to
collect before I can attempt compilation there (Open Watcom, DMake,
YACC/Lex/Bison (need one of them), etc.).

If there is someone who would like to help work on the make issues, it
would help.  I'm not looking forward to rebuilding the make sub-system, but
it is one thought -- since I want to compile under Linux, and DMake is not
what has been adopted as a standard (freely redistributable) make platform
in that environment.  There are a fair number of make files to get revised
for a switch in the make sub-system, and a switch will break some of the
cross compile features with out some thought and effort.  

As you can tell from my delayed response, I'm reading the fido echo areas
on a limited basis.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41
telnet://tophat.darktech.org


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