AK-Datatypes In Development

[kolla]

Can one expect updates to land on aminet, or will they vanish in the obscurity of AmiStore?

[kolla]

So AmigaKit are developing their own datatypes.library in parallelle to OS developers extending and improving the official datatypes.library - or is this coordinated so that the above mentioned library is the official one shipping with OS 3.2?

[kolla]

So we are here witnessing fragmentation of AmigaOS development in the hands of commercial vendors - exactly what commercial closed source development was supposed to prevent - right? *slow clap*

So what is this “new” datatypes.library then, did AmigaKit/AEON buy old v45 from Roland Mainz?

I have still not seen any good answer for how AmigaKit legally can just ship old ClassAct gadgets etc with their commercial product like ImageFx... the old ClassAct license specifically says they cannot do this as the distribution license is not transferrable. Did AmigaKit get permission from the old ClassAct team, or from current owners Hyperion?

Does anyone care?

If not, I suggest we just upload updates for all classes, libraries and other OS components to Aminet, for the sake of less fragmentation.

[kolla]

It has been very hard work without documentation and a lot of trial and error to get things to work but we are almost there.  These new datatype libraries and classes are re-implementations with a future vision on how the current limited datatypes system should grow.

Then why don’t you just let “your man in Havana” join the OS team, so he can benefit from documentation, official support etc??

[kolla]

Then why don’t you just let “your man in Havana” join the OS team, so he can benefit from documentation, official support etc??

1.  We prefer not to build our house upon sand.

The house is already in sand, you are merely replacing the door frames.

[kolla]

He was one of the “original” ClassAct team... tau, along with caldi, mitchman...

Caldi apparently cared enough fux to accept payment from Hyperion for this intellectual property, so they are now the owners and the ones who’s fux one should worry about...

What does datatypes v46 offer over the official datatypes then? And how is compatibility with future “official” OS3 releases, or is this the dawn of yet another OS3 “spin”?

Maybe ProDAD could be convinced that they should release pOS again, just for shits and giggles...

[kolla]

If you recall the sound datatype project replacement introduced streaming for the first time to the Amiga

I don't know about "first time", wasn't this one of the new things with ProDAD's datatypes in pOS as well?

[kolla]

What do you mean with 'again'?

convinced, again.

Anyways, just an idea - AmigaKit/AEON could possibly have their own operating system by buying pOS from ProDAD (if possible) and build their business on that.

[kolla]

in some datatype descriptors - the built-in function was indicating it could handle the data, yet the pattern was failing.

Aha, it was probably interference from the tripolymer ionic polarity units that caused the pattern to fail. Classic!

[kolla]

@chris
I believe animation.datatype has been rewritten for OS 3.1.4.

Anyways, the new feature in *this* datatypes.library and sound.datatype, from what I understand, is ability to present/play a datastream, opposed to current dataype system that won’t process anything until it sees EOF. This was a shortcoming that became very obvious as streaming of mp3s became popular back in the 90ies.