[haiku-development] Re: to Be or not to Be
- From: Disreali <mdisreali@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:47:06 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Wasn't the goal of R1 to remain compatible? This is a
> rather extended
> > version of compatibility but, I just can't see
> breaking this until R1 is
> > done with. Then you can sever all ties.
>
> This has nothing to do with Haiku having binary
> compatibility with R5
> apps. That's a completely separate issue. All it's about is
> being able
> to build a version of an app from Haiku's repository such
> that it
> would still run on R5. I don't see any reason for that to
> matter,
> especially since it severely reduces what we can do to
> improve said
> apps with no real gain to make up for it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene
>
>
Ah.. Explained that way, I understand the intent.
So, yes, removing BeOS specific code stuff would be good at this time.
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