CVS and Cutting the first Strings

I have created a new CVS repository and checked in the original sources. CVS is not the best control control system but it is not bad and does the job. I had at the outset thought about getting the project professionally hosted - there is some good Trac SubVersion hosting out there - but for the moment I will save the money.

I have started working through some of the utility classes and getting them to build. The code is well organized, structured and generally well commented. Coming from a long legacy project which in reality is a bit out of control working with code like this is a real breath of fresh air. I was fortunate enough to have spent a day looking at the code before buying into it, during that initial review I could see that it was well written and of a high quality. The most daunting aspect of it all is the shear quantity - there are hundreds and hundreds of files.

My first step is just to get things to compile. There are a few fun and games with templates as gcc is quite strict. There are (obviously) a lot of types defined in MFC - things like BYTE DWORD etc. I am making some stub headers with the minimum of declarations in them.

I have taken the MFC CString class and turned it into a wrapper for a CFStringRef - the code has it's own string class and it occurs to me that down the road I might consolidate them. The windows version of Cello is not Unicode which is something that down the line I will want to change. Making CString a wrapper for CFStringRef is a start - and those parts of the interface to CString that are char * I am scoping in a #ifdefs so that down the line I can flip the define, have my build break and work through the the compiler errors. The other thing is that the CFString is when I come to the UI a NSString - ready for cocoa.

I have after a good days work got 8 files compiling - the first took half a day but it gets quicker!