Thomas Frieden wrote:
Hi,
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,
All well, but we shouldn't make it harder for _US_ to actually port the thing in the first place... For example, have you ever tried iterating through environment variables on OS3 ? Horror... DOS V50+ has appropriate functions that make this as easy as going through your command line arguments...
Bottom line, we should not use features of OS4 just for the sake of using them, but if it makes the thing easier, faster, and better, I would go for the OS4 features...
Regards,
Heh, this is where the different view points are very useful, and where those differences are highlighted. I was looking at a higher level series of decisions (ie MUI over Reaction) rather than coding level decisions, I would expect there to be differences in the code between MOS/AROS/AOS4 as you've highlighted and would expect the coders on those platforms to make those changes. My thoughts were simply on the strategic direction of the project I mean if we were to use Reaction rather than MUI then we automatically generate a lot more work for the AROS and MOS teams (sorry to keep using this example its the only one I can think of at the moment). This also highlights an issue for the MOS/AROS people really (and dont worry you have convinced me) if they arent here to point out the ways we could make their life easier we cant help as we dont have the necessary experience with their OS's.
Mark