[openbeos] Re: BObjectList vs. TypedList

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We might also just move it into os/support/, shouldn't we?
> If we intend to declare it a public API, we should do that. Then we 
> should
> make sure, that the usual binary compatibility precautions are taken
> (for _PointerList_).

Perhaps we should have a closer look at the class interface anyway - Be 
itself introduced a whole new set of such classes with Dano (but not 
BObjectList), perhaps we might prefer to go a similar way, too.

>[...]
> > Of course, someone should then work on a DiskProbe replacement 
> > sooner
> > or later :-))
> DriveSetup? Well, at least an almost empty implementation already 
> exists
> in the tree. BTW, since DriveSetup uses the DriveSetup add-ons 
> directly
> (not through the Device API), and we are not going to replicate this
> interface, this has to be done anyway.

No, not DriveSetup, *DiskProbe* - the hex editor that come with BeOS. 
The Device API is widely used in the applications shipped by Be.

Adios...
   Axel.

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