[openbeos] Re: How far along is Haiku networking?

"Charlie Clark" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Huh, with that attitude, we could also all just use Windows and do 
> > some
> > logo artwork with Photoshop, though
> > Any BSD or Linux has better code (as in more thorough and mature) 
> > than
> > we have in many many areas. But it often doesn't fit to what we 
> > need or
> > want, and the networking stack is not really a big exception here, 
> > IMO.
> > Of couse it makes sense to use an already existing stack if 
> > possible,
> > but it'll be like an alien in our code.
> Yebut, nobut, yebut, see fing is I think the issue is that the BeOS  
> networking was poorly implemented and should be replaced with 
> something  
> better. To my knowledge this was the only part of the OS where this 
> is  
> consensus. The discussions on the netteam list archive for those 
> really  
> interested. The rest of us will have to live with whatever the devs 
> go  
> with.

Im not against replacing our current (bad and BSD based) networking 
stack with the one from FreeBSD - I'm all for it.
I'm just saying that it'll be like an alien in our code, and that we 
probably may want to adapt it more and more over time to what we want, 
instead of letting the FreeBSD project maintain it for us - which is 
resource friendly, but not what we want to have in the long run. There 
is definitely a reason why every OS project has its own BSD-like 
networking stack, and not just one (how nice would that be, though :)).

Bye,
   Axel.

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