Rodney wrote:
Well, as i see it, AmigaOS and MorphOS are supporting 3.1 APIs or something similar. Once they start to get a few native apps, they'll drop that emulation quicker then you can say, "drop that emulation" .
So keeping up with the times is a good thing. I think what woudl also be a good thing is to try add third party apps rather than official MorphOS or AmigaOS things to the set of features/requirements.
MUI is a good example. MUI will be included in AOS4 for some time to come. It will also be avaliable in MOS and in a compatible form for AROS.
But, as i've said in the news item discussion. In stead of trying to get users/developers to use these sets of tool, i think we should push AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS developers to work in POSIX compliant. That way, we'll benifit the community on all platforms but we'll also have a wide range of software.
I know this will be a lot more difficult, because this will require some development time, but the result i think would be much worth it.
Not that im saying this isnt a goood idea. I needs to be done. Just correctly.
As I've tried to point out, POSIX isn't really an issues here.. we are talking about things that POSIX does not cover at all!!!
In fact choosing a POSIX compatibile API will be an integral part of the openamiga standard.
-Edit- one of the reasons why I'm a keen on using AROS (or any AmigaOSoid for that matter) other than, say the rather fine, AtheOS is because I don't want just another POSIX OS... sure have support for POSIX, but don't let it rule you... we have our own standards lets look after them. :-)