[haiku-development] Re: VLC to drop BeOS port
- From: "Duane Ryan" <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:27:23 -0400
Well, if VLC is planning on using QT, then A) it uses C++, and B)
we'll have to worry about maintaining our own interface or porting QT.
I don't recommend the latter.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:20 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> At the last LinuxWorld, Jean-Baptist Kempf of the VLC project visited
>> our booth, and mentioned that they are planning on dropping the BeOS
>> platform because it does not have support for C99 which will be a
>> requirement for the next version of VLC (I hope I got that right, but
>> Urias can correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Indeed, gcc2.95 doesn't support C99 fully. I already had to made some
> C89 fixes to some things (NetSurf... but they didn't reject them at
> least).
>
> Technically it should be possible to build a gcc4 (that would give a
> reason not to deprecate BeOS support in gcc4 too), and build the C code
> with gcc4, and the C++ code with gcc2 to keep the old ABI... though I'm
> not sure how well it'd go, and I don't recall, but if VLC uses C++
> itself it's not going to work anyway.
>
> At least having them keep the code around to ease Haiku port would be
> ok.
>
> François.
>
>
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Duane Ryan Bailey
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