[haiku-development] Re: VLC to drop BeOS port
- From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:54:14 -0700
2008/8/13 Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
Speaking of the VLC GUI - the same Jean-Baptist mentioned that they're
standardizing on Qt and asked if Haiku would have a Qt port as well. I
frankly couldn't answer that question, but reminded him that we were
still using a native UI for our VLC port.
- Urias
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