[haiku-development] Re: R1a4 -- possible?
- From: fano il primo <fanoilprimo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:34:35 +0100
>R2 it will be so different to R1? R1 apps do works in R2? W/o
>recompile? Drivers, too' Well this is really different a driver for
>example ***LINUX KERNEL 2.6.18*** needs RECOMPILATION to work in kernel
>2.6.26! If R2 not need this well great...
The numbers are Linux kernel release obviusly, sorry...
On 2/17/12, fano il primo <fanoilprimo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> SO to resume:
>
> * From R1 to R2 you've an intrregnum at least 2 years
> * From R1 to R2 (interregnum) you could have critical bugfixes, but it
> needs time
> * R2 it will be so different to R1? R1 apps do works in R2? W/o
> recompile? Drivers, too' Well this is really different a driver for
> example 2.6.18 needs RECOMPILATION to work in kernel 2.6.26! If R2 not
> need this well great...
> * An R2 Apoplication cannot work in R1, but for a driver I suppose it
> was requested: we can add library/kits to the API (never broke them
> I'd say add, not remove functionality if possible), but the kernel
> driver interface must be remain the same.
>
> If we'd have the luck INTEL develops a working driver for Haiku (open
> or proprietiry for me if it works no problems... I buy the hardware
> and I WANT the driver for Haiku as in WIndows I NO PREDENT sources I
> don't do for Haiku, too)
> we've not to pretend INTEL continues follow us doing continue porting
> (and R2 broke driver API, R3 broke driver API... ands so on...): this
> is unaccetable, but I suppose its your vision, too... right?
>
> If it's not broken not fix it!
>
> On 2/17/12, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Le 17/02/2012 19:03, David Given a écrit :
>>> Adrien Destugues wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Not technically impossible, but it will use some developer resources
>>>> and
>>>> just make R2 take longer to get done. I think we should rather make R2
>>>> have a smaller set of new features, to release it faster (and move
>>>> features to R3, R4...). But that's only my personal idea of it. Maybe
>>>> other devs think otherwise and are willing to backport the security
>>>> fixes.
>>> Will the new package management system not allow Haiku core components
>>> to be upgraded piecemeal, or will it still be necessary to wipe and
>>> reinstall to get bugfixes and functionality improvements?
>>>
>> The package manager will allow it, but the components might be too much
>> tied together and it would end up the same, upgrading everything.
>>
>> --
>> Adrien.
>>
>>
>
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