[haiku-development] Re: Ruby to drop support for 9 platforms, including BeOS

  • From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:59:04 -0700

2008/7/29 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
> To be honest, I consider them dropping the BeOS a good thing. From my porting
> experience so far, part of the task of porting something to Haiku is working
> around the BeOS port. When we drop the __BEOS__ macro this will be less of a
> problem, of course. Anyway, unless you have personal interest in the BeOS 
> port,
> please don't ask them to keep it.

Yes, that's a good point...

I only have a personal interest in the Haiku port myself (because I
want to learn Ruby in the future).

So, Olivier's suggestion about dropping BeOS support while at the same
time as gaining Haiku support works for me!

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