FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: SK_TEST_* and old BeBooks

[Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wheee. All nighters are fun :-) 

> I slightly changed the Jamrules file to define the macros SK_TEST_R5 and
> SK_TEST_OBOS_POSIX for the compilation of the test app. Their values are 0
> or 1 respectively, depending on which headers/libraries are used.
> This should enable us to deal nicely with e.g. crashing R5 tests (just
> #if !SK_TEST_R5 ... #endif enclose them) and different (but acceptable)
> behavior for R5 and our stuff.

That's great. I suppose we ought to be able to #define 
USE_OPENBEOS_NAMESPACE now as well, correct? Cool.

> The second thing I want to mention is, that for deprecated, and hence
> undocumented, API it is a good idea to have a look into older versions of
> the BeBooks. Yep, obvious, but I hadn't thought of this before -- perhaps
> I'm not the only one. ;-)

I sure hadn't thought of it :-)

> I don't know, if these old BeBooks are online somewhere. However, I've got
> the CDs since BeOS PR, what should be enough. So, if someone needs any
> info, I'd be glad to forward it.

Good deal.

-Tyler