[openbeos] Re: wxWidgets, was: Re: Pe in SVN ?

On 14/02/2008, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok. I just thought, but probably I am not the only one, that if we start 
> porting
>  lots and lots of apps and/or toolkits, we just become another OS.

IMO, before it can become a "great OS" it must first become "another
OS"... chicken and egg problem :/

Porting software is not only a stepping stone to getting a multitude
of already-built, great applications, but also a way to improve POSIX
support and the underlying OS architecture.

I think what you're suggesting is drawing an imaginary line between
what is allowed and what is frowned upon - in this case GUI software
and non-GUI software. For the same reason you would argue that it's a
bad idea to port cross-platform GUI widgets to Haiku, another person
could argue that it's a bad idea to port cross-platform APIs and
technologies to Haiku (SDL, OpenGL, WebKit, and even POSIX)... Might
as well throw Java out too :)

Anyhow, from a user perspective, I would love to have access to much
of the same software I can get on Windows and Linux and OS X... just
because it was primarily built to run on another OS doesn't make it
bad software.

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