Wos or not Wos ?
Please don't (and never) forget that the OS4 people are trying to make all of you happy.
I mean that they are evaluating if a WarpOS support is possible and at what cost.
What I mean is:
- WarpOS is not strictly needed. It means that OS4 will live without it. Why ? Because coders will be able to do an OS4 native program easily. So why do you want those old Wos programs whereas you can have better ?
- Why should they add code to the OS to support an old format we will all forget in a few months ? (for the same reason above) We all don't want "dirty" patches in the OS, don't we ?
- WarpOS binary format is tricky. Both 68k and Wos code are "merged". It is not easy to distinguish what is what for Dos.
- Adding support for Wos will take time. And this time can be used for more important things.
Now, what can be done ?
Even if Wos can't be loaded directly (i.e. recognized) when you run it, a limited support could be added through a loader. Do you remember the "runelf" program ? The same should be possible with Wos.
As a conclusion, we don't need Wos support but if it can be done, it will be done !!!
My personal thought is that I prefer spending time on working on something usefull than on things from the past !
Thanks.
