[Lowfer] Re: Lowfer digest, Vol 1 #428 - 9 msgs

[Alberto di Bene]

Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote :

> A quick question, in what language was Argo written ?
> 
> How hard would it be to port the thing to Linux ?
> (and yes, I'm willing to do the work)
> 
> Rik

Argo is written in C++, using the Borland C++Builder 
compiler. And it uses the Intel Signal Processing Library.
The porting to Linux in theory can be done, as Borland 
has recently released a Linux version of the compiler,
and the Intel library is available also for Linux.
The sound card interfacing should be entirely rewritten,
I am told that with Linux audio is managed in a completely
different way (I am by no means a Linux expert).

A problem that I see is that some components (like the 
sliding ruler for the frequency scale and a couple others)
are written in Object Pascal (the Borland compiler allows
this coexistence). Don't know how portable this can be to Linux.

If you are seriously interested to do the porting,
contact me offline, maybe after I have solved the XP problem...

73  Alberto  I2PHD