Re: a time for MiNTlibs pl47?

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <conradus@orient.uw.edu.pl>]

> 
> > > > This is something we should discuss first. I've been  talking with MagiC 
> > > > developer who told me MagiC was not fully MiNT compatible...
> > > 
> > > You mean Dirk's patch would break MiNTlibs for MagiC?  Well,
> > > if that's the only problem, they could always stay with PL46...
> > 
> > I think we shouldn't care about MagiC  as they don't dare to care about
> > the existence of MiNT.
> 
> Hmmm, that's a very very bad idea. The power of MiNTlibs is that programs
> linked with them are able to run under three more or less different
> operating systems - TOS, MiNT and hopefully MagiC. If anyone would break
> this rule programmers could not use the library, so it would be useless to
> do such an 'improvement' of MiNTlibs - understand me, Konrad?

For me, any patch is OK as long as it keeps MiNT compatibility.. because
mintlib is just MINTlibrary. So as long as patched version would be the
same or better  for MiNT (even if patches are done for MagiC or whatever)
I am going to accept this rule. But if any MagiC patch had to cause
troubles withi compatibility between old and new library,  it would be
bad.

And "they" are of course MagiC developers and MagiC software developers.
Those first didn't care about MiNT/MultiTOS compatibility (some AES calls,
like shel_write, some kernel calls, like Pgeteuid(), XFS format...), these
last (at least these who I meet each day oon the IRC) are going to write
MagiC only software considering MagiC as the only modern OS and MiNT as an
obsolete one....

gtx
Draco