On Oct 12, 2010, at 03:51 , Peter Soetens wrote:

> On Friday 08 October 2010 19:56:05 Philippe Hamelin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Windows is now fully supported in RTT 1.12, including the readline support
>> in the taskbrowser. What's the state of the win32 target in Orocos 2.0 ?
>
> Identical + more. I have ported all relevant pieces from the 1.x branch to
> 2.x. 2.x also contains improvements on the timing and priorities front on
> win32 threads, these were not back-ported to 1.x. I have read reports of
> people using 2.0 + win32 + corba. You'll need the 2.1 release to have the
> corba fixes + 1.12.0 fixes though.
>
>>
>> I'm going to start a new Orocos-based project on Linux, but the GUI will be
>> on Windows. Actually, I'm not sure if I can go with 2.0 or might I stay on
>> 1.x ?
>
> If corba is the way you will communicate between both systems, I can only
> recommend the 2.x version, since it has a cleaner API and we can handle the
> memory consumption much better. You'll also benefit from typegen, so no longer
> need to write typekits and transports.
>
> As you may have noticed, all core developers/users have switched to 2.x. It's
> really worth a try.

Harumph! Nice to be included ... :-0
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