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

So basically what we are saying is we need our own (finished) BONE.
We'll call it HONE. ;-)

On Mar 18, 2006, at 7:16 AM, Axel Dörfler wrote:

"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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