Re: irfanview to port over to linux

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:25:48 -0700
Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss@granroth.org> 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
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