FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: GCC 3/OpenBeOS & Standards Question

["Jonathon Freeman" <j_freeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great idea about the standards idea. I couldn't agree more. :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andrew Edward McCall <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: OpenBeOS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:09 AM
Subject: [openbeos] GCC 3/OpenBeOS & Standards Question


> Hi,
> 
> I have two questions for today, people may want to split these into two 
> seperate threads when replying...
> 
> GCC
> ===
> 
> When we eventually get to an R1 release of OpenBeOS, it will probably 
> be compiled with GCC 2.9x.
> 
> What I have been thinking recently is - is there anything to stop a 
> user getting a later version of GCC, specifically GCC 3.x and 
> recompiling the whole source tree, and having a "newer" system, but one 
> thats incompatiable with the official OpenBeOS release? Would there be 
> any speed/performance increase if someone did this?
> 
> OpenBeOS Standards
> =============
> 
> I have also been thinking of the distribution model that we seem to be 
> moving towards with OpenBeOS.
> 
> It looks like OpenBeOS is going to provide a minimal system, much like 
> BeOS R5PE, and then third parties such as BeUnited are going to create 
> a distribution for people to purchase that will include other programs, 
> libraries, software and media.
> 
> I quite like this idea, but what I *don't* like is the idea that in a 
> few years time we get companies making software *for these 
> distributions*
> 
> I think that we should say now that the OpenBeOS-Rx release are 
> standards, and if another party such as BeUnited.org create an OpenBeOS 
> release, they can have it "certified" to meet an Rx standard.
> 
> This way companies/individuals can target their software at these Rx 
> standards rather than distributions and this should skip all the 
> problems Linux is having now with vendors trying to manage software 
> installations for a million different distributions. It should also 
> help create an equal playing field for the smaller comapanies or 
> individuals who want to make a distribution of OpenBeOS, as all the 
> software that is out already will work on their distro as long as they 
> stick to the standard.
> 
> Just a thought for discussion....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew Edward McCall
> OpenBeOS Preferences & Applications Team Leader
> mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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