OpenWatcom Team Looking For Help

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 30, 2006 @12:17AM from the working-it-out dept.

Spritzer writes "The Inquirer has a short interview with Kendall Bennett, founder of Scitech Software, about the future of the OpenWatcom project. In short they are in need of some talented people with experience in shared libraries and AMD64 extensions. 'Right now the compiler works great on Linux, but all the code has to be static linked and it uses the Open Watcom runtime library. We need the ability to generate ELF PIC compatible code, as well as link against existing SO libraries which would then allow Open Watcom to use the system GLIBC libraries.'"

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Choice is good by stikves · 2006-01-30 01:00 · Score: 3, Interesting

While I will probably never use their tools, I believe that choice in C++ compilers is actually very good.

Remember what happened in RedHat GCC 2.96 case: An upgraded computer with "better" standards support actually resulted in more problems. Many source codes with GCC specific assumptions ceased to compile (inluding the Linux kernel) and everybody blamed RedHat. (Please do not start a flamewar about this).

But if we already had many vendors (like gcc, Intel, watcom), we'd be less likely to run into such problems.