Hi Jim! Jim Saxton, Thu, 2 Jun 2011 20:05:42 -0700: > Why this is even being discussed: > > A quote from > http://haikuware.com/forum/alpha-3-compatible-software/1955-haiku-alpha3-compatible-software-discussion/Page-4 > > > [quote] > Secondly, Haiku releases two different versions. GCC2 & GCC4 (well > actually four), yet the 'official' flavour is the GCC2 Hybrid. > Confused? So, whose fault is it that developers develop GCC4 apps > that > don't work on the official hybrid but work on the GCC4 builds? I agree that the distinction between "official nightlies" and versions for debugging purposes should be emphasized some more. It was discussed to rename them to something other than "haiku" and maybe put in a sub- directory. On the other hand the nightly page explicitly says: "While official releases leading up to and including R1 Final are distributed only as a GCC 2 Hybrid, all four combinations (GCC 2 Only, GCC 4 Only, GCC 4 Hybrid, & GCC 2 Hybrid) are available for development and testing purposes. *It is recommended to use a GCC 2 Hybrid.*" Develpment work takes an incredible amount of paying attention to detail. How can a developer overlook this? Or is it a misunderstanding, because it's all taylored to Haiku OS- development and should be extended with: "3rd party applications *must* be compiled in a GCC 2 Hybrid environment, preferably the latest official release." Is there still a <blink> tag...? > When r1a3 or r1beta, or R1 are released and the reviewers attempt to > install poorly ported software that is only packaged to run on a gcc4 > build of haiku, it will be Haiku that is dissed in the review, not > the > game that was not packaged to be compatible with Haiku. You could argue that the Haiku project is too open with its debugging builds and should have made the distinction more obvious. Fine, I hope the web/build team are working on the "waltering" of the non-gcc2h images. I do think the software sites distributing non-gcc2h compiled and broken apps share a major part of that responsibility for not screening incoming apps. I'm happy to see they start to address the issue. Regards, Humdinger --=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=- Deutsche Haiku News - Haiku Gazette http://haiku-gazette.blogspot.com