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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Date: 2001-08-26T21:40:22-04:00

That is the beauty about COM. Code written for IE 3.0 still works today
against IE 6.0. Same goes for the FTP components and just about every other
component. The idea of "the moving" APIs has not been an issue for years (at
least not at the COM/DCOM level :-)

Portability is overated...... too many times I have seen sloppy product do
to "portability" when it was clearly known from the start that the product
would be running on a single platform. Even when a product needs to truly be
cross platform, it often makes more sense to abstract out the components and
APIs used and be native on each platform. A little more work, but much more
professional results.

David Botton

"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:uzo8mzhnz.fsf@wanadoo.fr...
> Of course, but for me having native Ada components is not the point I want
to
> have portable ones. I just don't want to be tied to a specific platform :)
>
> Also all the nice MS components are changing all the time and there is not
the
> same ones installed on all computers... You guess, this could be a real
> nightmare !!