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. -- Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx>