Well, if VLC is planning on using QT, then A) it uses C++, and B) we'll have to worry about maintaining our own interface or porting QT. I don't recommend the latter. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:20 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > -- Duane Ryan Bailey