[haiku-development] Re: Why not C bindings?

  • From: "Wayne Peter Corwin" <wayne.peter.corwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 01:15:52 +0200

On Sunday, September 07, 2014 at 1:09 AM "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But in case you haven't noticed yet, every suggestion that doesn't
> > fit current core dev's personal taste (the few that are left) are
> > automatically shut down. C bindings makes sense for many reasons. So
> 
> They are not shut down, they are mostly ignored because we already have
> not enough time to write code, let alone discuss things that were
> decided long ago, and for many valid reasons.

Mosty ignored => effectively shut down. Besides, bad decisions can and should 
be reversed.
 
> It's not their "little playground". They are the one who write the code.

Hence, given their ignorant attitude towards these discussions, it's their 
little playground.
 
> You're free to fork and rewrite if you don't like it.

So I strongly implied it wouldn't make sense to do a fork since Haiku is 
already obscure enough as it is.

Good work copy'n'pasting parts of the post.

- wpc

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