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Offline wawrzon

as others said, probably a rehetoric question, is this version jump justified with morphos mui compatibility? beacuse if its not, what i suspect, then its a deliberate and again very shortsighted, if not failed, try to confuse or even mislead the audience.

the correct way to get around this would be to rename the whole implementation, while keeping compatibility as its been done won aros or with warp/wazp3d. i recall similar debacle about the ixemul library, where morphos and os4 delivered an incompatible updates, while becoming shamlesly overridden by a os3 versin claiming a higher verion number. it was a very questionable case already, however, at that time none of the parties could claim clean track of record, i guess.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: MUI 5.0-2016R1 for AmigaOS4/PPC and AmigaOS3/m68k released
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2016, 10:06:32 PM »
Quote from: chris;813196
Of course this would be a non-issue if the official MUI was built for OS3 and OS4 too, not to mention a massive save of time for the developers who could be working on something more interesting/useful.


same as with everything else, but since the prprietors are not in accordance with that, its the same as if someone houtside hyperion has released amigaos5. shall i remind all bashing arti has received for calling his amiga-68k sdl netsurf compile "netsurf"?
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: MUI 5.0-2016R1 for AmigaOS4/PPC and AmigaOS3/m68k released
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2016, 10:12:02 PM »
Quote from: kamelito;813197
I suppose that they look at latest Morphos SDK and then once the new MUI functions are implemented they call it 5 as it is 5 for Morphos, non documented features cannot be implemented so I guess there is difference between the two.
The interfaces should be the same but not the implementation.
Kamelito


thats my question, if they really reimplement mui5 functionality, then even if i dont particlularly like mimicking it as a real thing (in contrary to arturs netsurf "fork" its not based on actually common open source called by that name) i could understand the motivation to catch up with the original.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: MUI 5.0-2016R1 for AmigaOS4/PPC and AmigaOS3/m68k released
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2016, 01:01:47 AM »
Quote from: chris;813202
Actually it's a fork of MUI 3.8, so it's exactly the same situation.


i beg to differ. if artur based his "fork" on some netsurf code revision from, lets say, the last century and tried to add the same (or maybe different, who knows) features, as some later intermediate version while bumping his version/revision number to catch up with the version of the genuine current netsurf release, then it would probably be the same situation. and i wonder if this would be tolerated without complaints by the netsurf development team.