[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #33
- From: "Mikael J." <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 01:16:24 +0100 (MET)
> >
> > >I've looked at the way BONE was designed, and although it may be
> > > fast,
> > >it is quite ugly.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, what about BONE struck you as ugly? All I
> > know
> > about BONE is what I read in the Be Newsletter article that came
> > out
> > about
> > it, and as I recall it sounded quite nice to me...
>
> Well, first of all, it's OOP in C, which is often a recipe for
> ugliness. The code I've seen (*not* leaked, the sample headers that
> were released) was a complete mess. Also, doing things in the kernel
> meant not really being able to interact with user-space apps. For
> instance, a net_server addon I wrote once that monitored ethernet
> activity put up a deskbar widget. BONE add-ons couldn't do that.
>
Nope, instead they use ioctl()'s to just those kinds of parameters
filled in by the kernel driver.
Point being?
--
Mikael Jansson, BeDevID #E-20392
http://hem.spray.se/tic_khr/
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