[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

On 7/25/05, Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the argument I made a couple years ago, but I've given it up,
> because, as Axel pointed out, R1 > R5. As an example, some Haiku apps that
> run on R5 (StyledEdit and MDR) require Haiku libraries like libtextencoding.
> Why? Because they have features, important useability features noticeable by
> the end-user, that R5 doesn't have. This is true of a lot of the system. The
> media kit is new and improved, the network stack is utterly different, the
> kernel has some new APIs (I believe devfs supports attributes and node
> monitoring now?) The driver API is completely revamped. I could go on, but
> the point is that we will, from the very beginning have features R5 doesn't
> have, even in our core APIs, not to much the addition of hardware support in
> areas R5 didn't even touch (e.g. ACPI)
> 
> We also need R1 because some things simply can't be implemented, except in a
> horribly hacked way, in R5. To use the example of ACPI again, this needs
> kernel support -- to use it for power off, suspend, etc. This *cannot* be
> done on R5. But we will be able to do it on Haiku R1.
> -Nathan 

Speaking of which (sorry to butt in): is BeUnited involved? I believe
they wanted to establish a standards base so that all versions of BeOS
(including Haiku and the Linux attempts) could have the same features,
so that apps will work on any version of BeOS out there. I understand
it if people prefer to keep steaming ahead without any hindrances that
involve bureaucracy.

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