[haiku-development] Re: [Fwd: [General] Haiku OS]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:57:30 -0400
> "Matt Madia" <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > What has been an obstacle for me is the environment.  Obviously,
>> > you have to be able to run Haiku, and aside from the normal hardware
>> > requirements of any OS there are some extra issues - virtual machine
>> > software, might need to have BeOS 5 and extra partitions, etc.
>> > Next, you need a development environment, probably on a different
>> > platform with cross compilers and so forth, and it gets kind of
>> > complicated and perhaps not perfectly documented.  I wonder if some
>> > of these potential developers are deterred by this?
>>
>> Just to toss an idea out there, ....  would it be feasible to provide
>> one `Haiku Development Environment Package' for a particular linux
>> distro?
>> Maybe a set of scripts to help automate the process from start to finish.
>
> That sounds like a lot of work, and at this point maybe not worth it,
> though I can only speak for myself.  I actually did round up all the
> pieces for that, and it didn't strike me as all that hard.  (Except I
> was trying to make it work not on i386 Linux, but on NetBSD-amd64.)
> Concise and accuration instructions would be about as good as a package,
> I think.
>
> Of course, if you could make a CD distribution with all the necessary
> tools and read/write BFS filesystem support, that would be pretty slick.
>

I haven't used linux/*bsd since discovering BeOS and don't plan on
installing it anytime soon : P

Though, if it was deemed worthy enough, I'd be willing to put some
money down on a bounty "(partially) automating or providing a Haiku
development environment for OS BLANK"

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