The OpenAmiga Standard

[Rodney]

DaveP wrote:
Hmmm.

I like the basis behind the idea but I think you will have a problem choosing either CyberGFX or Picasso96 "standards" as neither are particularly open or within our domain to control. Plus I think you get into the Cyber vs Picasso debate. Given you have made the decision to throw away WOS and PUP may I suggest you throw away P96 and CGFX?

Also including MUI will cause similar strains. What would be more useful is if you just stuck to the AOS3.1 API as being the open standard revision #1 and then allow other bodies to submit revisions to that for sound, graphics and higher level interfaces.

This forces subcommittees to get the political and technical issues out of the way.

Sort of the way that CORBA is handled by OMG.

I like that idea. Having more then one library to do the same thing is a bit silly.  I'd think the OS3.1 APIs should be the path to stick to... Adding more libraries just adds fractures to the OS/community.

I think we should keep it simple. Both OSs will prolly support the base install of OS3.1  (through emulation or whatever) so i think OS3.1 is the place to start.

[Rodney]

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.