Bernie Rohel says
[about CDK dropping]
>Good question. As far as I know they haven't officially dropped the
>product, but...
>
> * At previous Meckler conferences, they've given sessions on how to
> use CDK; this year they were absent.
last time I saw them was in NY in Dec. They had a panel, but I do not
remember about seminars...
> * I was chairing a panel at Meckler, and tried to get someone from
> Autodesk to speak about CDK; they declined.
hm
> * They weren't exhibiting CDK on the show floor.
when?
> * It's my understanding that a large number of people who were working
> on CDK are no longer at Autodesk; I spoke to one person in particular
> who had been on the CDK team and has been laid off.
>
> * The folks at Micro Green (who do Navigator) indicated that release
> 2.0 of CDK was probably going to be the final one; Autodesk would continue
> to support existing customers, but was not planning any new development
> on CDK as a commercial product (though they may continue to use it
> in-house).
well, at least they plan to support those 15-20 customers of CDK <grin>
>> even if it is VERY difficult to master...
>
>Yes, and the fact that the latest version apparently requires a very, very
>specific development environment doesn't help. As I recall, you have to
>be running Windows NT 3.5, Visual C++ 2.0, have 32 meg of RAM, and have
>several thousand dollars to spend on CDK itself. All that in *addition*
>to being a C++ programmer.
>
>Small market...
that's true ( btw: you can develop with 16M, but compiling is SLOW... if you
build a full-blown app with MFC and CDK you get 1.5Mb EXEs... ). Well, I
tried shortly to work with Visual 2.0 under Windows 95, and it seems to work
OK, and this could be a semplification about the need to have WinNT. About
small market, you are absolutely right; as far as I know, I am the only
thinking object here in italy to have used CDK to do something more than
recompiling the samples... that's a pity, definitely. Ok, let's stop here
this CDK thread..
Bye
A sad Aaron