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One of the goals of Haiku is to be able to run BeOS software unaltered, and an unfortunate side effect of this is that the ABI for BeOS software is compatible w
by Torgo 12y ago
One of the goals of Haiku is to be able to run BeOS software unaltered, and an unfortunate side effect of this is that the ABI for BeOS software is compatible with 1998 GCC, version 2.9 or thereabouts.
- geon 12y agoI think that is only a goal until the 1.0 is reached, in order to focus the effort.
- ab5tract 12y agoI can see the "focus the effort" part, but it has always seemed like a case of personal determination amongst core members. It's been argued that if the ABI compatibility were not considered a requisite, this effort would have shipped some really cool stuff by now. I just want to know which BeOS software these people have that they need to run. They've never made clear just which software requires this extend-efforts-by-a-decade-or-more requirement.