Re: irfanview to port over to linux

On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:05, you wrote:
> Have you looked into running it with wine? (http://winehq.com)
> Just a thought.
>
> mike hoy wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Do we have any software developers here? Let me know
> > because this may be a fun project.
> >
> > Mike

I'm a developer, and yes, I know from experience that porting can be
difficult. Most of the code that compiles on one OS will compile on another.
It's the 10% or so that doesn't that gives you 90% of the trouble.

Vaughn

> >
> > re: http://www.irfanview.com/
> >
> >
> >
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