[haiku-development] Re: To __BEOS__ or not to __BEOS__?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:19:54 +0200 CEST

Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I thought we wanted to be source and binary compatible with BeOS
> > for
> > R1...
> > doing so before R1 would break source level compatibility, so I
> > would
> > avoid doing that.
> We've already broken source compatibility by removing the libnetwork
> symlinks then. Might it be an option to make this configurable in
> Jam?
> That is, if some variable or parameter is specified, create a strict
> development package (without libsocket, __BEOS__ etc.), and by
> default
> keep it source-compatible?

I don't really see a point in staying 100% source compatible - the
changes Haiku requires are minimal at most.

Bye,
   Axel.


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