[haiku] Re: New "BeOSCompatibility" package for Haiku
- From: Jerry Babione <jerry.babione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:33:00 -0500
I've followed this discussion for a long time. It's make it or break it
time, time for beta, time to start selling a whole new generation on
Haiku/BeOS. That can't be done while waiting on apps to be rewritten,
Windows and Linux are both vulnerable now...
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Dario Casalinuovo <b.vitruvio@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> I must come from a different generation of programmers. (1) You are right
>> about absolute paths being bad form. (2) The older apps were not all coded
>> that way... (3) Some of my version 5 BeOS installs her in Oklahoma as Web
>> Servers are waiting and tired of waiting, (4) A Workaround is just patching
>> the problem. (5) The BE Book talks about solutions to using hard paths (has
>> since the '90's) that are not currently in use. (6) While change is Good,
>> Change for change sake fixes what isn't broken. (7) Don't throw away what
>> works (8) If your change causes something that works to break there is
>> something wrong with the change.
>> To reinvent the wheel is costly and time consuming. Don't waste the money
>> that's been donated, fixing what was working for the sake of might be
>> better.
>>
>
> I'll try to explain better the last time. I'm not against a compat
> package, i'm against having it enabled by default, for the reasons i
> explained before.
>
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Jerry Babione
Founder-Just Plain Folks Org. Inc.
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