Removing BeOS support

Is anyone still in need of the BeOS support in SDL2? I’m planning to
remove it.

Haiku support will remain (and be easier to maintain without worrying
about legacy BeOS)…I’m only talking about the OS from the company that
went out of business 12 years ago.

Speak now, or forever use an old SDL2 snapshot.

–ryan.

I think it’s probably safe to suggest that pre-Haiku BeOS is probably
fairly well on par with OS/2 pre-eComStation. And we don’t even have
eComStation support anymore because nobody’s stepped forward to
maintain it.

Legacy BeOS? I’d say nuke it.

JosephOn Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:37:27PM -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

Is anyone still in need of the BeOS support in SDL2? I’m planning to
remove it.

Haiku support will remain (and be easier to maintain without worrying
about legacy BeOS)…I’m only talking about the OS from the company
that went out of business 12 years ago.

Speak now, or forever use an old SDL2 snapshot.

–ryan.


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While we’re at it, what about PSP support? I imagine it isn’t in any
much better shape that was the DS support when that got axed. Does
anybody know if there are people still using it recently?

PSP is still at least maintained, though it probably needs some
updates since 2.0.0 to be quite current. Haiku is maintained. BeOS
is not.

I can’t help with PSP as I haven’t got one?portables don’t work for
me very well. :frowning:

JosephOn Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:04:20AM -0200, Sik the hedgehog wrote:

While we’re at it, what about PSP support? I imagine it isn’t in any
much better shape that was the DS support when that got axed. Does
anybody know if there are people still using it recently?

I don’t even know if anyone actually tried building it for BeOS; I surely
didn’t.
I’m all for removing it. If anyone would ever want to resurrect it, the hg
history will always remain.

Bye,
? ?Axel.> On November 12, 2013 at 4:37 AM “Ryan C. Gordon” wrote:

Is anyone still in need of the BeOS support in SDL2? I’m planning to
remove it.

Haiku support will remain (and be easier to maintain without worrying
about legacy BeOS)…I’m only talking about the OS from the company that
went out of business 12 years ago.

Speak now, or forever use an old SDL2 snapshot.

I’m all for removing it. If anyone would ever want to resurrect it, the hg
history will always remain.

Ok, this is in progress now:

 https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6d538bc1b395

I’ll be fixing it up more today, so don’t panic if Buildbot gets upset
about it in the next few hours.

–ryan.

I’m all for removing it. If anyone would ever want to resurrect it, the hg

history will always remain.

Ok, this is in progress now:

https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6d538bc1b395

I’ll be fixing it up more today, so don’t panic if Buildbot gets upset
about it in the next few hours.

–ryan.

Ryan,
Just a heads up, Haiku recently removed /boot/common [0]. I noticed it was
in one of the cmake files you updated. Our cmake port is still lagging
behind the recent Haiku changes but we should get it caught up soon. Where
you see /boot/common this can be replaced with /boot/system. I’ll be
updating the haikuports .recipe files for SDL2 and 5 SDL2 libraries in the
next week or so to be able to build them into Haiku’s new .hpkg package
format, and then get them added into Haiku, hopefully in time for their
next release. Once this is done users will be able to install SDL and/or
SDL2 and associated libraries right from the new HaikuDepot app.

I assume you are building on Haiku R1 Alpha 4.1? I’ll check it on the
latest Haiku nightly and upstream any patches that might be needed.

-scottmc

[0] http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/Removing-bootcommonOn Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

Where you see /boot/common this can be replaced with
/boot/system.

Like this?

 https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/1e2d63f57e04

I assume you are building on Haiku R1 Alpha 4.1? I’ll check it on the
latest Haiku nightly and upstream any patches that might be needed.

I think I’m on alpha 4.0, but I’m not sure:

~/SDL/buildbot> uname -a
Haiku fakehaiku 1 hrevr1alpha4-44699 Nov 7 2012 BePC Haiku

–ryan.