Re: About FOX Toolkit

On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:08:57 +0000
Marc-Alexandre Espiaut <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm a software developer who came in contact with FOX Toolkit after 
> reading the source code of a tool named ReZound.
> 
> I went on your website to get a copy of FOX Toolkit, and I must point 
> out that the FTP address mentioned is incorrect, as ftp.fox-toolkit.org 
> doesn't seems to be addressed, whereas using fox-toolkit.org in a FTP 
> client just works.

I'll need to check this; my domain registrar has been changed...

> On that note, I would greatly encourage you to put HTTP links, rather 
> than FTP links, in the Downloads section of your website, as FTP isn't 
> supported anymore by browsers like Firefox, and therefore silently fails 
> when clicking on them (the browser doesn't do anything).

I use gFTP or FileZilla. The old command line ncftp and ftp also still works.

If you want to use a browser, http download is supported as well, from the
download page.

> Lastly, I would like to know if FOX Toolkit have a special compilation 
> flag to throw compilation warnings or errors if a deprecated function is 
> used. I would like to see if ReZound makes use of any FOX Toolkit symbol 
> that is set up for deletion.

You could add a flag to configure.ac to do this.  The VC++ project should
be up to date for 1.7.

Note such a warning would really be only issued if the API is declared as
having deprecated attribute.  


		-- JVZ