Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: "Sascha Kimmel" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: RE: BETA for any other OS? Date: 5 Apr 2000 21:28:29 -0000 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 63 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <20000405212829.3361.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: "Sascha Kimmel" NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 954970123 14939039 255.255.255.255 (5 Apr 2000 21:28:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2000 21:28:43 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12285 Hi, > 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. I only wonder that you support platforms as IRIX and HP-UX, although they are not "mainstream operating systems" for the "normal" end-user. > 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. Yes, this should be possible, but I cannot compile on FreeBSD, so I need to install Linux - do you know of any possibility to compile on the daemonsīs OS rather than using the Penguin? :) > We are unlikely to support Windows CE as it runs on several different > processors, The most widely used are MIPS and SH3 (on HPCs and PPCs). > none of which appears to dominate the market This is one of the advantages of Windows CE - it's not as platform (i.e. processor) dependent as all other Windows OSs. > 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. I can only tell you that for Windows CE - not quite unlike BeOS there are not many development tools available AFAIK. > 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. BeOS 5 Personal Edition (www.be.com) is free, maybe this will motivate more users to give it a try! Regards, Sascha Kimmel