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Re: [MiNT] mono
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From: "Paul Wratt" <paul.wratt@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:22 PM
To: "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] mono
exclude everyone using legacy hardware, as no real Atari is powerful
enough to run NetBSD at a decent speed.
There are some, and there will be with the ACP, besides the same could
theoretically be said for GentooMiNT and some SpareMiNT setups
A Milan060, Hades or CT60 can run BSD at a decent pace, but none of these
are common. Excluding standard Falcons or TT's sounds like a good way of
alienating a large part of the userbase.
"mimic unix" no, but to supply near 100% posix/linux complience, that
means MiNT stays in the "modern" end of the boat, and that in itself
means continually evolving
It's possible to be "modern" without posix ;-) True, posix-compliance will
make it easier to port unix-stuff, but will it be easier to create good
GEM-apps?
I think that 99% of Atari ST GEM/Mint users stick with it because
relatively speaking, it is lite and fast, and lets face it, unless
there are ports, no one is ever going to do apps in the same way they
are created for other OS's, although zView pushes that limit (amongst
others) I would consider that an essential "modern" app, and one that
inspires me to push that boundary also.
zView is a very good example of a type of software that you can't just
"port" to our platform. It does take advantage of free code (most - if not
all - of the codecs, and the pdf code) but the application itself is a
native GEM application. This is the way to do it! Plain ports of X-apps
might work, but they would still be X-apps.
Jo Even
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