[openbeosnetteam] Change of heart...
- From: "David Reid" <dreid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "OpenBeOS Network Team" <openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:46:52 -0000
Folks,
I've had some email from people recently about the approach we're taking and
combined with some other things I'm afraid to say I've changed my mind about
things.
Don't get me wrong, I still think an kernel land stack will be the way to
go, but I think it's a long way off and for obos we really should be
considering the nearer future. Considering the nearer future basically means
that we look at creating a userland network stack that's compatible with
beos 5.
While this is a change of course, as we've not really done much so far it
isn't a big change is it? :)
The change will also lower the entry requirements for everyone and hopefully
start to provide soem code that people can work on in a familiar environment
rather than having to jump into a totally new environment at the same time
as trying to wrestle with the complexities of a network stack.
When we get towards an R2 release (if we ever get there) and we're using the
newos kernel then we can look at moving over to a kernel based stack, which
should be much easier having already done the userland code and having a
bunch of people used to working with network protocols.
I realise this is a change, but think it's one we should make.
david
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