1. Source Code Idea
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Hello all!
Well, it's official: Palm has decided, in effect, to deep six BeOS.
However, there is now a new project, named OpenBeOS, that will be rebuilding
the operating system.
Why is this on-topic? Because I was wondering if anyone out there with the
skills and the Euphoria source code has considered making a BeOS port. From
what I understand, BeOS uses the gcc compiler ... version 2.5, I believe, so
I suppose technically such a port should be possible, maybe using the Linux
source code? I'm not sure. It would be a project worthy of my buying the
Euphoria source code; however, my knowledge of C is so lacking I don't know
whether to laugh or cry.
What do y'all think about the idea?
Travis Beaty
Evans, Colorado.
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Well, it's official: Palm has decided, in effect, to deep six BeOS.
However, there is now a new project, named OpenBeOS, that will be rebuilding the
operating system.<BR>
<BR>
Why is this on-topic? Because I was wondering if anyone out there with the
skills and the Euphoria source code has considered making a BeOS port. From
what I understand, BeOS uses the gcc compiler ... version 2.5, I believe, so I
suppose technically such a port should be possible, maybe using the Linux source
code? I'm not sure. It would be a project worthy of my buying the
Euphoria source code; however, my knowledge of C is so lacking I don't know
whether to laugh or cry.<BR>
<BR>
What do y'all think about the idea?<BR>
<BR>
Travis Beaty<BR>
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2. Re: Source Code Idea
Travis Beaty wrote:
> Well, it's official: Palm has decided, in effect, to deep six BeOS.
> However, there is now a new project, named OpenBeOS, that will be
> rebuilding the operating system.
My impression was that much of the BeOS couldn't be released - it used tools
licensed from other vendors. So I'm assuming that OpenBeOS will be done from
scratch? Hrmm... Looking at the website:
http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/
that appears to be the case. What will they do when they hit the 100Meg size
limit at sourceforge..?
In any event, I never saw a C BeOS program - the toolkit was C++. At this
point, I don't think that Euphoria will compile under C++. Robert, please
correct me if I'm wrong here! But that should change soon.
I don't know what niche they're planning on filling, but it looks interesting.
-- David Cuny
3. Re: Source Code Idea
David Cuny writes:
> At this point, I don't think that Euphoria will compile under C++.
> Robert, please correct me if I'm wrong here! But that should change soon.
In the 2.3 beta source code, I upgraded dozens of
C function definitions from pre-ANSI C form to ANSI C/C++ form.
i.e. I converted old stuff like:
int foo(x, y)
int x;
int y;
{
...
}
To:
int foo(int x, int y)
{
...
}
I think that will help, but I haven't tried compiling with C++.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
