Subject: Re: Release/Tree closing
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 14:58:50 CDT
According to James Montgomerie <jamie@montgomerie.net>:
>
> Being that the only person who seems at-all interested in the BeOS
> version for actual use* instead of simply having an abstract 'it's be
> cool to be cross platform' feeling (which, make no mistake, I also
> share), I can't see it being ressurected any time soon. If there's
> interest, I can try to get my drawing, ruler and toolbar improvements
> into a coherent state and get the build compiling again, but if there's
> not, I can't really see much point.
Not that I feel motivated, but I still have this BeOS partition lying
around on THIS machine. I may be able to help on BeOS PowerPC (after all
they are source compatible) if that really helps.
> In short, I'd like us to declare the BeOS version 'legacy' and
> 'unmaintained'.
Personally I feel very sad about it, but if no one is willing to takeover,
it is better to make this decision, keep the BeOS code and talk about
this largely on BeOS news site to try to motivate some developers.
[...]
> * Though, I have to admit, I hardly ever use BeOS now. It's sad to see
> a great OS die without ever really having a chance to live. Still, my
> new iBook should arrive soon - perhaps I'll find time to work on the Mac
> OS X version instead.
That would be largely welcome.
Hub
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