[haiku-development] Re: What's the status of Haiku?
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:28:01 +0200
Am 21.08.2014 um 15:15 schrieb Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On , Ingo Weinhold wrote:
>> On 20.08.2014 18:26, Sia Lang wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> It is a lot to ask the Haiku community to abandon our current approach
>>> for what sounds like a prototype.
>>> Totally agree, I'm not asking anyone to jump ship and join me.
>>> I am however asking the Haiku community to consider if the kernel choice
>>> made 14 years ago still makes sense. It's painful to leave a huge amount
>>> of work behind in the dust, but there's still so much Haiku work that
>>> would have a great life on top of a Linux or BSD based BeOS. With all
>>> the up-sides mentioned before (busses and drivers abound!)
>> Unless I miss someone, of the Haiku developers (counting committers
>> only) who posted in this thread no one strictly opposed the idea of
>> switching to another kernel and most even seem to consider this an
>> interesting option.
>
> -1
>
> Fixing the few remaining kernel bugs and getting a release out is more
> important than trying to move everything over to a Linux kernel (which would
> likely push any further releases back *years* given our current workforce.)
Maybe you are missing the point. The talk is about encouraging a *parallel*
project that is likely going to take years to become usable. And the question
is whether we want to shut any doors towards the idea of Haiku ever switching
to the Linux kernel. We are not talking about dropping what we do right now and
focussing all efforts on switching kernels.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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