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

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>

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