[Ace-users] Re: Important information regarding Borland/Codegear C++ Builder

[hongxing777 at gmail.com]

On Jul 9, 7:08 pm, "Johnny Willemsen" <jwillem... at remedy.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Remedy IT has maintained the Borland C++Builderport of ACE+TAO for many
> years. The initial work has been done as part of our consultancy work. After
>
> that the maintenance of the Borland C++ port has been without funding.
> With the years the amount of work we need to put into this maintenance has
> increased. Borland/CodeGear have released new versions which all needed to
> get supported and we participated in several beta programs. At this moment
> we have reached a point that the C++Builderport is taking several days a
> month and we have 2 build systems mainly doing C++Builderbuilds. This
> isn't something we can keep doing for free anymore.
>
> In order for Remedy IT to continue maintenance of this port we require
> sponsoring of interested parties from the user community.
> We need a funding total of 15.000 euro for a period of one year.
> With this funding we will maintain Borland C++Builder6 and do the port to
> CodeGear C++Builder2007.
> In addition our build systems will keep running Borland builds and all
> build/test results will be visible online athttp://scoreboard.remedy.nl.
>
> I case we are not able to aquire the needed funding we will stop maintenance
>
> of the Borland C++ port and shutdown our Borland builds by the end of summer
>
> 2007.
> We will commercially support any ACE/TAO/CIAO version released, but
> re-adding
> C++Buildersupport in the future can be a time consuming and costly effort.
>
> If you are using Borland/CodeGear C++Builder, let us know if you are
> interested in funding this effort. When several users sponsor this effort it
> shouldn't be hard to keep ACE/TAO/CIAO supported with C++Builder.
>
> Regards,
>
> Johnny Willemsen
> Remedy IT
> Postbus 101
> 2650 AC  Berkel en Rodenrijs
> The Netherlandswww.theaceorb.nl/www.remedy.nl 

I use BCB6 and BCB2007 but I am only a personal user. I can only help
with my best.
I think you can contact with Borland and get help from CodeGear.