[haiku-development] Re: VLC to drop BeOS port
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:20:42 +0200 CEST
> Howdy,
>
> 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).
Indeed, gcc2.95 doesn't support C99 fully. I already had to made some
C89 fixes to some things (NetSurf... but they didn't reject them at
least).
Technically it should be possible to build a gcc4 (that would give a
reason not to deprecate BeOS support in gcc4 too), and build the C code
with gcc4, and the C++ code with gcc2 to keep the old ABI... though I'm
not sure how well it'd go, and I don't recall, but if VLC uses C++
itself it's not going to work anyway.
At least having them keep the code around to ease Haiku port would be
ok.
François.
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