[haiku-development] Re: VLC to drop BeOS port
- From: "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:59:06 +0200
Hi,
> Am 13.08.2008 um 20:13 schrieb Jorge Mare:
>
> > At the last LinuxWorld, Jean-Baptist Kempf of the VLC project visited
> > our booth, and mentioned that they are planning on dropping the BeOS
> > platform because it does not have support for C99 which will be a
> > requirement for the next version of VLC (I hope I got that right, but
> > Urias can correct me if I am wrong).
> >
> > I don't know the (technical) implications of this new requirement or
> > whether it is worthwhile to keep the BeOS port alive or go for a
> > "clean" Haiku port (as was mentioned on the Ruby port thread
> > recently).
>
> The VLC port is most likely different from Ruby or APR, in that it is
> not just a question of BeOS POSIX workarounds but probably also has a
> GUI based on the Be API. I've heard there are changes concerning the
> layouting in Haiku, but having them drop pre-C99 support while keeping
> the BeOS specific code for a migration to Haiku would sound easier.
At the last GSoC mentor summit, I talked to a few guys from the VLC project. It
sounded like they want to get rid of some places in the common code where it is
messy with #ifdef __BEOS__ stuff. From my point of view, they should go ahead
and clean those up, since that will most likely be posix code that we want to
provide compatibility to in Haiku anyways, if not already done. But they should
keep the BeOS interface code in their repo if they don't mind. That code is not
messy at all and should not harm any other platforms until someone can pick up
work on VLC again.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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