Re: windows-nt related matters

> Hello Amaya team and users,
> 
> I've only recently started checking on the product
> and
> the various directions it is taking. First off, I'd
> like to thank the Amaya team for putting together
> such
> a potentially useful tool!
> 
> I'm trying to decide whether this would be a
> reasonable code base to use for an Internet-based
> collaboration tool I am developing. Although not a
> fan
> of anything from MS, I will be constrained to
> working
> on the Windows-NT development version, since my
> potential users are all strongly wedded to this
> platform.
> 
> So the questions are as follows. Please forgive me
> if
> these are repeats from earlier postings. I have
> attempted to go thru all the user-group discussions
> (1999-2000) before writing this:
> 
> 1: Various people have had problems with the
> Windows-NT build over the past several months. Can I
> assume that the version 4.1 source release (sometime
> in Nov-2000) has corrected these problems or not? Is
> there anything I need to do in-addition to whatever
> is
> listed on the
> "Windows compiling section" page?
> 
> 2: What (if any) are the inherent limitations of the
> Windows-NT release, compared with a Unix version? I
> think I read somewhere that the Thot implementation
> on
> NT is limited. Can someone tell me the implications
> of
> this, please?
> 
> 3: I understand and appreciate the "mostly
> authoring,
> a bit of browsing" philosophy that guides the
> development team. Does this mean that certain
> features
> (html forms, java applet support, javascript
> support)
> will **never** be implemented, or that it will just
> take a lot longer?
> 
> 4: Is the plugin architecture unavailable on NT? If
> so, how do you suggest adding additional data
> (mime-types). Could I at least have a helper
> application handle my special data types?
> 
> 5: I understand there's going be another release
> sometime in December. Will this handle some/any of
> the
> existing Windows-NT shortcomings?
> 
> Regards
> 
> KL


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Received on Wednesday, 20 December 2000 23:17:28 UTC