uncharted wrote:
Ok so this seems to be more than a nice idea. In theory it should be able to work. The only problem I can see is that some of the APIs are for commerical products, but there are always ways around that. Now what is needed is for someone to explain exactly how it WILL work. We need someone to come up with a detailed plan and proposal to put forward to the current players.
The next stage after that will be to present the whole OpenAmiga initative to the AROS team, Genesi/Pheonix and Hyperion/Amiga and get them to sign up to it.
@Greenboy
This would be perfect for that progamming inititive I discussed with you.
Well, AROS is the reason we can do this. It provides all the whole standard (it has free, opensource alternatives to the comercial APIs covered in the openamiga spec) in one free package.
-Edit- A detailed plan would be in essence: make sure MOS and Hyperion keep AOS3.1 compatibility and introduce extentions in a system friendly and API documented (ie, they can tell us what they are and how they should work, but not tell us how they did it)
The Other APIs need to have OpenSource alternatives only if they do not already exist on one of the platforms (they all do, and AROS has opensource version of those that are closed).
The Openamiga group needs to be able to make sure that all the system can provide a base standard functionality...
So we can only raise the base standard when all system are able to meet it, understand... Openamiga needs to do nothing outher than define what id the minimum that all thesystems can do.
The APIs I have proposed cover that minimum already, well almost (ie in the important areas) :-D
