[haiku-development] Re: VLC to drop BeOS port

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:48:10 +0200 CEST

> Quoth "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
> ...
> | But shipping with the GCC4 libs and tool chain included is
> definitely
> | something I would welcome very much. It is also very easy to do for
> us.
> | Except for providing the Haiku native GCC 4 tool chain, it is
> virtually
> | no additional work.
>
> And it's effectively the same for developers, right?  I mean, as long
> as
> both environments are supported, it doesn't matter very much how the
> system
> was built, to someone who isn't writing drivers or other internal
> stuff?

Well it does for some uses.
Like, if you want to write a firefox plugin, or a replicant, it better
be build with the same gcc as the target app and the (C++ at least, but
C libs can in turn use C++ libs) libs it uses...

François.

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