Open Amiga - Defining the Standards

[Kronos]

@Red

I have to disagree here:

When developers decide to stick too MUI-3.8 and that part of CGX that is supported by P96, than both Hyperiom
and Genesi have to live with it. Remember that H&P tried to push ReAction since 1998 (or 99 ?),ö and how little most
external developers cared ?

Only if they add new APIs that really are superior, or if one side gets a marketshare over 80%, only than would using those
APIs make sense for commercial devs. Bed-rooms-coders on the other side may actually be too lazy, or "sided" to bother
for an "Amiga"-branch they don't use.

[Kronos]

@DavidF

MUI is free for MorphOS.
Zune (MUI-clone) is open-source, and should compile on all OSes if needed.
OS4 will come with an unregistered copy of MUI, that will allow you to run MUI-apps (no need to buy a MUI-key for that),
but won't allow you to change the standart-look.

Also a GUI-system is needed, and GadTools/Boopsi on there own are just not good enough.

ReAction, Triton, StormWizard and other are also no help, as they are all closed-source, non-free and most aren't
developed anymore (or just for one OS).

Porting QT/GTK or so may be an idea, but would that still feel "amiga" ?

[Kronos]

@amimonkey

MP is not something you code (cos it would mean coding bad on purpose), it is something that will just make it easier for
the user to live with badly programmed SW. Wether the "optional" MP in OS4 will be of much use on this is another question.

But as I wrote earlier, it is allways a question wether those new APIs are worth loosing a part of the market.

And that goes for both OSes, or should I say "all three", since AROS also has some extended APIs ?