[haiku] Re: Team Haiku

  • From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:54:00 -0800

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Joseph Prostko <trasnam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:45 AM, François Vincent <batuque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like just to make an ad for the Team Haiku. If you are interested
>>> about Distributed Computing, join us ! www.teamhaiku.com
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, we have to use the BOINC client for Windows or Linux.
>>> If someone could compile it for Haiku, it would be great (gcc4
>>> required).
>>
>> Is this as trivial as a recompile, or is it more along the lines of a
>> port?  Even a non-GUI version would be nice for those of us that run a
>> GCC4 or hybrid Haiku build.  I can't say I spend much time in other
>> OS's lately, other than to rebuild Haiku, so the clients for other
>> OS's don't do me a ton of good.
>
> It does require GCC3+ according to their requirements. I had
> considered trying to cross-compile it from a GCC4 haiku build env at
> least once, but I haven't ever found the time to do so. It's pretty
> likely that some porting effort will be required - don't expect a
> simple recompile ;) The GUI client version would require wxWidgets, or
> possibly a completely separate natively-written front-end. I don't
> consider this a necessity at this point.
>
> The BOINC client alone is only part of the puzzle (albiet, an
> important part!), once that is done you'll still need to port the
> applications written by each project to Haiku as well. You can likely
> start with SETI as the application sources for it are open as well,
> but many projects keep their source closed.
>
> Anyone wishing to port distributed computing apps, please send me a
> note - I'd love to work with you and track any progress being made on
> behalf of Team Haiku.
>
> - Urias
>
>

Speaking of wxwidgets....
There's a partial port started called wxbeos, but last activity seems
to have been Feb 2008:
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/wxbeos-devtalk/2008-February/000011.html
François you bored yet? ;)
Last work appears to be fixing of the triple patched items.
http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=8099
-scottmc

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