MUI PPC ugraded!

[Giovanni]

That is, its not Genesi's product right?

Indeed, MUI is not a Genesi product, the OS4 team has access to the latest sources of MUI and will be integrated in OS4 for (backwards) compatibility.

Intuition & ReAction will be boith greatly enhanced, but there are a lot of appz out there who need MUI, IBrowse for example which is shipped as part of OS4. :-)

[Giovanni]

@Rodney

But are you sure Hyperion or anyone else has access to the sources and that a PPC version of MUI will be making its way for OS4?

Yes, you can read it on page 21 of the OS4 feature list 1.0 from January 2003. Although this fact has been stated a few times before in some another so called "status reports" of OS4. Hyperion also mentioned a few times the LATEST version of MUI to be included (3.9 or later).

[...] so they would include the 68k version.

I don't remind if Hyperion ever mentioned a PPC version of MUI, but as they have access to the latest MUI codebase/repository it wouldn't be wise to compile a 68k version.

They mention a OS4 native version of latest MUI in the feature list, so we can asume that a PPC version will be included.

[Giovanni]

I'm almost sure that Hyperion won't have access to all enhancements Genesi made to MUI.

Well, someone should ask Stefan Stuntz about that, but when someone makes some changes/additions to the MUI codebase, everyone who has access to it benefits from the respective changes. So the latest MUI version in OS4 aswell :-)

[Giovanni]

@zacman:

See the Hyperion chat from Amiga Expo 2002. Ben Hermans states there that they will use the *latest* MUI source code. A transcript & the mp3 audio file should be (somewhere?) on the internet or on my HD  8-).

So I asume that they have access to the MUI repository, how can they get then the latest source code?

[Giovanni]

@logain

Yes. But my keyfile will work anyway. And every user with a working keyfile shoudn't have a problem to edit & save MUI's preferences.

IBrowse uses MUI, the new FT2-Manager also (parts of OS4).

[Giovanni]

@zacman:

Well, I suppose that, too.