code-migration

I am working on a drawing-based product where I want to produce versions for iPhone, desktop OS/X, Windows Tablets, Silveright-based browser, Windows Mobile, and Windows in that order of priority. For GUI portability, the classic answer is to keep the core in C++ and use Cocoa/Objective-C or WPF/C# thin layers. However, Silverlight complicates the choices. I wouldn't have any problem migrating my code into C++/CLI and maintaining a dual code base (with some macros to fake the C++/CLI contextual keywords and some judicial search and replace for ^ and %). From what I've been able to find so far

Just sharing some information hoping that it would be useful to the community. Usability of Applets have gone down since various browsers stopped supporting plugins. Google has decided to discontinue support for NPAPI plugin, EDGE does not support plugins, Firefox is also discouraging use of plugins, and Mozilla may follow the suite. One of the applications we developed required use of Applets for the following reasons Ability to access ports and peripheral devices attached to computing devices Ability to exchange information with the web application (Through JavaScript) Noninvolvement of

What conversion/rewrite have you been involved with that failed? What where the languages and framework involved in the process? How large was the software in question? Finally what is the top one or two thing you learned from being involved with the process. This is related to this question . One of my favorites was a fixed price project developing a server app on Sun OS 3 that was eventually required to run on an old Data General machine running some (at the time) current version of Unix. Now, we knew ahead of time it would be painful porting the C code to the Data General because it had 9

Closed . This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post . Closed last month . What successful conversion/rewrite have you done of software you were involved with? What where the languages and framework involved in the process? How large was the software in question? Finally what is the top one or two thing you learned from being involved with the process. This is related to this question I'm going for "most abstruse" here: Ported an 8080

Which method makes the most sense for importing a module in python that is version specific? My use case is that I'm writing code that will be deployed into a python 2.3 environment and in a few months be upgraded to python 2.5. This: if sys.version_info[:2] >= (2, 5): from string import Template else: from our.compat.string import Template or this try: from string import Template except ImportError: from our.compat.string import Template I know that either case is equally correct and works correctly but which one is preferable? Always the second way - you never know what different Python