[openbeos] Re: State of the Union and PPC support
- From: "Andy Satori" <dru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:09:54 -0500
And I'd bet the Scott Lindsay is probably keeping an eye on this.
I'd also bet that if OpenBEOS gets to a release level in the next year,
GOBE might well run a build. You never know. I'd bet they have
engineers there that still use Productive 2.
Andy
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> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Whitehorn
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:49 PM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: State of the Union and PPC support
> Importance: Low
>
>
> > >I third the move to GCC on PPC. By dropping the old we eliminate
> > > that much
> > >extra work. The PPC port will have enough work as it is. IMHO the
> > > PPC port
> > >should be an exception to the binary compatibility
> promise. 'Get it
> > > working'
> > >is a tone that seems to fit better for this. And as far as I'm
> > > concerned, we
> > >should definately 'Get it working' with GCC and ELF, not PEF.
> > >
> > >Although I really like mwcc a lot better than GCC, if we're
> > > definately moving
> > >to GCC in the future (IMHO we should), it makes no sense
> to save it
> > > for R2 on
> > >a PPC port. Break it now, get it over with, and forge ahead on the
> > > new road.
> > >
> > >But hey, I'm just some crazy programmer...
> >
> > OTOH, and this is probably the largest arguement for BC,
> what are you
> > going to run?
> > All of the people who are pouring blood sweat and tears into PPC
> > drivers and kernel work
> > will be betting that a large number of developers out there will
> > recompile their code.
> > Including some important ones, like Opera.
> >
> > Since Net+ and old Opera will not run, you would have a choice
> > between BeZilla and nothing.
> > Ditto Gobe and others.
>
> There are no (AFAIK) ppc-only drivers. Opera and BeZilla never ran
> anyway. Nobody ever ported Opera, and the BeZilla build environment
> thinks using mwcc means you're compiling for MacOS. xpidl and
> mwstdlib
> don't work well together either. Net+ is an issue, as is Gobe. But
> that's about it for big closed-source programs that run on
> ppc now. -Nathan
>
>
> --
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>
> You know it's going to be a bad day when you want to put on
> the clothes you wore home from the party and there aren't any.
>
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