[openbeos] Re: StyledEdit issues : text encodings,opentracker integration, etc.

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:12:29 +0100 CET

"Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >* Issue 2: opentracker integration
> [snip]
> I have long thought that we should integrate OpenTracker into our 
> source tree. But effectively
> using it will require some analysis and documentation by some 
> energetic people. And, of course,
> Axel's permission, since he is the keeper of OT/OD.

I think it's a good idea to keep the OpenTracker somewhat independent 
from the OpenBeOS source tree - although I see that it is very tightly 
integrated into the system, and libtracker.so is a part of BeOS.
I would just import OT into the sources, but only to let stuff compile 
- much like many other third party applications. It would not be 
allowed to do any changes to that code - those changes should go into 
the main OT repository which could be later on reimported in OpenBeOS 
(for API changes or whatever, it doesn't have to be the latest 
version).

Unlike OpenBeOS OT is a stable product which will be continuously 
updated - and this should (at least in theory :-) happen much more 
often as OS releases.

Some day later, if OpenBeOS is the one and only out there, and has a 
stable base, we might reconsider it, though.

Adios...
   Axel.

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