[openbeos] Re: Compatibility.
- From: "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:01:31 EST (-0300)
> >I was talking to DaaT and marcus_o in the #openbeos IRC channel and
> > we
> >just concluded that being binary compatible is *NOT* enough... We
> > must
> >be humor compatible.
>
> Sigh. I am afraid this is going to degenerate into a war.
> Humor compatability is *NOT* part of R1.
Without that, R1 will be a complete failure. Hardware OGL Support is *
NOTHING* compared to this one.
> Everyone tells me that we need to branch out, not just recreate what
> Be did, but "get rid
> of the cruft". Well, this is a place where the cruft must be
> harvested and burned.
> Keeping Be's humor will lead to a bloated api, filled with useless
> functions like
> is_computer_on(). We *CAN NOT* afford to keep this kind of bloatware
> around.
I can live without is_computer_on(), but I realy think we should
implement more warning functions(), like beep(), beeeeeeeep() and
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep().
> No. We *MUST* invent our own API for humor. And that is just the way
> it will have to be.
I will create a class diagram for that.
-Bruno
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