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> 
> And hit "Clone"
> 
> And it will create directory AljexClient in your %USERHOME% directory
> with the repo mirrored inside.

Right, but you still need VC++ to actually compile from that, right?

> I think I agree with Marks assessment about maybe git isn't really worth
> the extra work for a small project like this.

Not to mention it's so...standard.  *cough*  I mean, CVS commands will
actually work in many cases in SVN.  Sounds like Linus really reinvented
the wheel, and did it non-standardly.  Wouldn't be the first time.  :)

> I am still checking out the different hosting sites other facilities like
> parallel hosting of a wiki for documentation, bugtracker, discussion
> forums, but code.google seems to be pretty good on all those counts.

Are you hung up on "free"?  Reason I ask...  You can lease a really -nice-
VPS from ViUX.com for sweet prices.  for instance, I've got one with 10GB
of disk and 128MB of RAM.  Don't laugh at the RAM, either...I specifically
-didn't- pay extra for RAM I wouldn't need.  People toss money at beefing
up web servers that don't actually need horsepower in the areas they think
they need it in.  It's a -fast- machine (quad-core Xeon 3.2GHz) with
lightning fast drives.  Granted, it's a shared machine, so you share the
NIC with other Virtuozzo containers.  But it's also completely unlimited
and unmetered bandwidth.  And I've clocked mine at 44mbit--and I'm pretty
sure the remote site was the limiting factor.  Prices fluctuate depending
on how much disk and RAM and other goodies you spec out, but mine is
$29.95/mo.  And it runs apache2/mod_perl2/libapreq2, sendmail, vsftpd,
subversion in both modes, Mojo (perl-based wiki that's bloated as sin and
has a module dependency list that takes 4hrs+ to download and compile),
mysqld, and a few other things.  I've never had performance problems.  

Last I looked, they were installing CentOS 5.3.  But that transparently
updates everything except the kernel to 5.5 if you do `yum update`.  ViUX
maintains the kernel environment due to running Virtuozzo.

Even their dedicated hosts are Virtuozzo container-based.  So if you
re-spec your system, they just alter the container specs, or if they need
to shunt your container onto another node entirely, migration is usually
seamless.  Worst case is you might have to change your DNS A record if you
end up at a different data centre.

I've been with them for almost a year, and I've been very pleased with
their service and support.

It just seems like it'd be better to just lease an inexpensive, but
high-quality VPS for all your needs, than it would to find free hosting
space for all these different tasks you want to do.  I'd go with the VPS.
Hell, I -did- go with the VPS.  :)  It's not free, no.  What is -is-, is
worth the money.

> Got to get Morena going or find some other solution... It's essentially a
> broken package until then. Maybe I can talk to them and get permission to
> include a demo version of the dll just so that the package will all build
> and run out of the box and then the user can get their own twainsave
> license if/when they want, but they can have SOMEthing to test with
> immediately.

When can you talk to Microsoft about supplying free versions of VC++?  :)

And no, that free Studio thing they were/are giving out doesn't actually
work.  Didn't for me, anyway.  Got it and tried to compile PuTTY and yTin.
Neither would compile under it.  It was, in fact, a nightmare of an
environment under which to work.

mark->
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