[haiku-development] Re: [Fwd: [General] Haiku OS]
- From: "Matt Madia" <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:57:30 -0400
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.
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