[haiku] Re: Wanted to write to my floppy drive

  • From: Andrew Hudson <hudsonco1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:46:17 -0400 (EDT)

Wait a second, I'm already playing the Devil's advocate, you can't do it twice 
:-)


- Andrew


OK, let me play devil's advocate for a moment and assume that supporting
floppy disks would be the worst possible thing that the project could do
and support for them is going to be ditched entirely.

What would be *gained* by removing this support?

- Cameron.







-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Mac Millan <casmacmillan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: haiku <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 7:42 am
Subject: [haiku] Re: Wanted to write to my floppy drive


On 7/13/11 8:24 AM, Andrew Hudson wrote:
> 
> yup, you're right. If Haiku claims to have a feature, it should
> support it well if only for the sake of integrity.
> 
> 
> Or retract the claim of support and put effort into a future feature.

OK, let me play devil's advocate for a moment and assume that supporting
floppy disks would be the worst possible thing that the project could do
and support for them is going to be ditched entirely.

What would be *gained* by removing this support?

- Cameron.


 

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