[Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

Andrei boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Sat Sep 9 12:03:58 BST 2006


Hello,

I'm somewhat confused by your statement...

>From the FAQ:

    "4. Can I use Express Editions for commercial use?

    Yes, there are no licensing restrictions for applications built
using the Express Editions."

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2006/04/19/579529.aspx

Regards,
Andrei

On 7/21/06, Stuart Sanders <stuart at bitshk.com> wrote:
> The "free" version of VS 2005 (ie VS Express) has a non-distributable license.
>
> So to legally distribute anything he compiles he would need to pay for Visual Studio.
>
> Stuart
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk
> > [mailto:boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk] On Behalf Of Nick Knight
> > Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 4:40 PM
> > To: boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
> > Subject: RE: [Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client
> >
> >
> > Hello Chris,
> >
> > This is probably leads to the need for support two platforms!
> > You can't
> > remove personal opinion! Not sure why you cannot distribute binaries
> > produced by MSVC?
> >
> > In this day and age 2GB files are not uncommon, so it needs doing - I
> > will have a look and assess it.
> >
> > Still trying to compile though and it barfs on no
> > BoxVersion.h, where is
> > this supposed to be or got from.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk
> > [mailto:boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
> > Sent: 21 July 2006 09:32
> > To: boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
> > Subject: RE: [Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client
> >
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > > Sorry Chris, I am with Gary, the Microsoft devel environment (I use
> > > 2003) its toolset is pretty good for debugging, I can't
> > comment on the
> > > inteli-sense in 2005 but I work on 2003.
> >
> > Sorry Nick, I am with GCC, because I can distribute the resulting
> > binaries. If I developed with Visual Studio and then distributed
> > untested
> > MinGW binaries, what would happen? :-)
> >
> > > Also in my humble view, Microsoft wrote the compiler, libraries and
> > OS,
> > > so will they not work better together?
> >
> > But they did not write Box Backup, so perhaps they will not work well
> > together? ;-)
> >
> > Box has always been developed (on other platforms) using gcc.
> >
> > > In fact I would go as far to say that in my days as an embedded
> > software
> > > engineer, we always wrote for Microsoft ide, then port to
> > the platform
> > > which would have much faster development cycles!
> >
> > > 1. Large file support - verify it is all working
> >
> > It definitely is not. The POSIX APIs used by Box on Windows do not
> > support
> > files over 2 GB, because they don't have a 64-bit file offset.
> >
> > The problem, unfortunately, is to replace ALL the POSIX APIs with
> > emulated
> > replacements using the Windows APi. That will not be easy.
> >
> > > 3. Look at the possibility of Shadow Copy, it looks quite
> > tricky so no
> > > promises! But this looks much needed for the likes of backing up
> > > Exchange
> >
> > This will be the first major problem for MinGW - the VSS API is cl
> >
> > > The problem without shadow copy and trying to backup exchange (or
> > > similar - point 3 shadow copy) is you have to back an intermediary
> > file
> > > using ntbackup - or just pulling out the database with exchange
> > > shutdown, but the problem with this is the id of the file
> > changes so I
> > > believe box treats it as a new file so doesn't even try to diff??
> >
> > Box will try to diff if a file is replaced by another with the same
> > name,
> > as well as the contents of a file changing. As far as I know,
> > the ID is
> > only used to track renamed files.
> >
> > Cheers, Chris.
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