[openbeos] Re: What happened to BeOS in your OpenBeOS plans?

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:30:13 -0600

>  >Well there is another issue.  When OpenBeOS is to the point
>  >that linux was say, at Rev 1.0, people will want to download
>  >it and compile it.  And that means that you will either need to
>  >rewrite it all to use make or you will have to provide a runtime
>  >version of "jam" just for OS compilation.
> 
> This is really a non-issue since we can make prebuild binaries 
> available 
> all over the place: openbeos.org, bebits; heck, we could even put it 
> in 
> the source tree (not saying we should).

You will *really* appreciate batch building the release at some point. 
Trust me on this. Also, lots of people like to compile it for 
themselves.
-Nathan

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