From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d7e592f9390e0746 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-21 07:07:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!proxad.net!latulipe.staff.proxad.net!news.uic.asso.fr!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "David Botton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Where's the goodies? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:05:52 -0400 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3B815D9C.9C22AA7A@san.rr.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 998402850 90486 137.194.161.2 (21 Aug 2001 14:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:07:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-pair-Authenticated: 63.161.15.130 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12168 Date: 2001-08-21T10:05:52-04:00 It did cost a considerable sum for the Windows SDK in the beginning (I think I still have my first Windows SDK sitting around on floppies some place, it wasn't cheap). When VC++ 1.0 came out and they packaged the Windows SDK with the compiler (that cost about the same as the SDK alone....... I wonder how many people went ahead and purchase VC++ instead :-) Following that, the price started dropping on the SDK slowly but surely. Vendors had to pay for the right to distribute the Windows SDK and it was bundled with their compilers (Cost still there, just hidden to you), and in fact still do. Since VC++ is about the only major compiler left on Win32 (gcc and borland are small potatoes, the rest are all gone) no reason not to make the latest SDKs more easily available to everyone. In fact parts of the SDK (some of the tools) only work if you have VC++. For example MIDL and important part of programming COM/DCOM only works if you have VC++ (I just started work this weekend on a replacement that compiles an XML definition of a COM/DCOM object in to a type library for use with GNATCOM, just to get around this problem). David Botton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Quinn" > Yeah I sure wish Microsoft would charge a lot of money for their SDKs > instead of giving them away for free! > > Errr...whatever pal.