Zune for all platforms

[OlafS3]

The Zune-project on power2people is splitted in several projects.

phase 1 is making it full compatible to MUI38.
http://www.power2people.org/projects/profile/61

In the next phase it will be ported to MorphOS and AmigaOS to have a common standard for applications.

Please donate and support the efforts.

What do you think? I hope for more common bounties to reduce the split in the community.

[OlafS3]

It would be the point that you can develope on one platform without caring about the different implementations and not wasting time with additional testing and workarounds.

[OlafS3]

You would not program MUI-Applications but ZUNE-Applications. And it will not be used by everyone but by programmers who want to support different platforms without additional effort. It is a toolkit that is available on all platforms and compatible to MUI. Programmers who just want to support one platform are free to do that. On OS 3.x both (MUI and Zune) run on the same machine and why should that not be possible on other platforms?

[OlafS3]

i have a different view. When you want to support different platforms you need a reliable environment and not new features. Zune will not stop at this point and there is no reason not to improve it. Even if not everyone welcomes it now, it should be done and when it is really available everyone can decide if he takes it or not.

[OlafS3]

+1

My vision would be to have a kind of framework (set of libraries) that exist on all platforms and make it easy to port applications and games (parallel to existing libraries), so everyone can decide if he only wants to program for one platform or all. Then you could also have bounties for common applications like web browsers and the divide would not do any harm. I think starting with Zune and 3.8 compatiblity is a good begin, but zune could and should evolve further. And words like "dictating" are not helpful because this word only create resistance. I would call it an "additional offer".