[openbeos] Re: Site Audit

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes
<oliver.ruiz.dorantes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>>
>> Not sure I understand what you mean... I want to try to get away from
>> people submitting their own mirrors and links to files. If everything is all
>> in one place, even if it goes down, it would be a lot easier to retrieve
>> than if files are scattered all over the web.
>
>
> Just people posting you a temporal URL where you can retrieve and mirror the
> lost app.
>
>>
>> I didn't. I didn't download or add Zeta apps because Zeta is dead. Also, I
>> didn't download sources.
>
>
> Thats a mistake. All bin only app is unmaintanable and will become unuseful
> as soon as Haiku switches to gcc4 or further evolutions. Maybe few(10%?) of
> the apps you saved had its sources, but these are the only ones that have a
> choice to stay in the future for Haiku.
>
>>
>> There are very few sources available. I thought long and hard about this
>> one. I don't want Haikuware to become a repository for source code.
>
>
> Its not that it has to be in haikuware. The code could be included with the
> package, or an osdrawer project could be opened for each of them. "Where" is
> not the question now, just having them in a safe place before more websites
> are gone, and that valueable codebase lost forever.
> If it cannot be in Haikuware. We need to have somewhere with as much as beos
> app sources avaliable, not in terms of repository thats for OsDrawer. But in
> terms ensure all beos apps that were opensourced are safe and can be
> maintained and reinserted in Haiku for the future.
> So if someone moreover the bin of karl's list has the sources... SPAM me
> please. I might find some time for a website for this.
>

I wholeheartedly agree with this thinking.
Any application that has source code is 100% valuable and should be preserved.
Remember, Haiku is opensource.   Even if Haiku Inc., chooses not to
implement Zeta-specific API, someone else may.
Even if no one does that,  someone may re-write Zeta-only applications
to work on Haiku.  Maybe they use it purely as a reference.

I understand and respect Karl's decision to not host Zeta-only software.
But I needed to add another voice to the importance of preserving
BeOS/Zeta/Haiku source code.
We are a small community with an even smaller application base.

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