On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Charles Davis
> wrote:
>>
>> ...our implementation can be written purely in C the same way all our COM
>> DLLs are.
>
> Or, come to think of it, we could write in Mono.
True, but do we really want a hard depende
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
>> If it takes off, and someone feels like supporting it in Wine,
>> they would probably have to start by implementing the first
>> bits in C like wine's msvcp support.
> ...our implementation can be written purely in C the same way all our COM
On Feb 13, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> According to
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/the-long-kiss-goodbye-for-x86-desktop-windows/19840
> Microsoft is not letting developers use win32 on arm (although
> Microsoft is probably using it themselves for Office on arm).
> Instead, native ap
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Vincent Povirk wrote:
> I don't know where you're getting the idea that C++ is the primary way
> of accessing WinRT APIs.
? I was talking about implementing WinRT, not using it.
But it's true, if all apps talk to it via COM, the language
it's implemented in shoul
On 13 February 2012 22:20, Dan Kegel wrote:
> According to
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/the-long-kiss-goodbye-for-x86-desktop-windows/19840
> Microsoft is not letting developers use win32 on arm (although
> Microsoft is probably using it themselves for Office on arm).
> Instead, native apps
I think it's way too early for this sort of speculation.
I don't know where you're getting the idea that C++ is the primary way
of accessing WinRT APIs. It's apparently a way of doing so, but that
doesn't mean it'll be the way most developers choose.
We also don't know whether the distribution mo
According to
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/the-long-kiss-goodbye-for-x86-desktop-windows/19840
Microsoft is not letting developers use win32 on arm (although
Microsoft is probably using it themselves for Office on arm).
Instead, native apps have to use WinRT, a C++-based class library.
Accordin
