Hans-Joerg Frieden wrote:
Mark bond wrote:
Naturally, my point was simply that descisions that get made by us in our efforts will make their jobs easier/harder, if we make it too hard by choosing to do things in a certain way then they'll be off doing their own thing, which presumably will mean they wont be helping doing the bits that are the same, therefore duplication of effort ensues. Of course if none of the users here are MOS or AROS users then its unlikely they will join now, so it may not be worth even thinking about.
OTOH, I would hate to see us settle for the common factor alone. The claim to be "AmigaOS-Compatible" in MOS and AROS only goes as far as OS 3.1, and quite plainly, if there is a better way to do it in OS 4 I don't think that we should go for the inferior way just to remain compatible. I agree that staying compatible should be attempted (thus, for example, use the inline4 macros instead of writing IExec->something), but if there is a function in OS 4 that does the job better than custom written code in OS 3, then by all means, going for the OS4 specific function is the way to go.
Sounds like a good idea.
Regards,