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From: Erik Corry <corry@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: BETA for any other OS?
Date: 4 Apr 2000 09:28:15 GMT
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Hi Sascha Kimmel,

Sascha wrote:
> will BETA be available for any of the following operating systems in the
> future?
> 
> - BeOS 5
> - Windows CE
> - FreeBSD 

These are certainly interesting platforms, but as I am sure you
realise, porting a development environment to a new platform is
rather more work than porting 'normal' software.  As we have 
limited resources we have to make difficult choices on what  
platforms to prioritise.

It may be that FreeBSD users can use the Linux-compatibility layer
in FreeBSD in order to run BETA programs and so they may not need 
a FreeBSD port as such.  We haven't tried this, however.

We are unlikely to support Windows CE as it runs on several different
processors, none of which appears to dominate the market and some of 
which have never been used for BETA before.  This would make the
effort needed for us to support Windows CE rather out of proportion
to the interest we perceive right now.

BeOS has a user interface API unlike any of the ones we support
right now, which makes the effort to support BeOS larger than that
for other platforms.  That doesn't make a BeOS port impossible,
just more difficult.  

I am afraid I am unable to make any promises.

Yours,

-- 
Erik Corry, Mjølner Informatics ApS