On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 14:11, Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 1. According to Wikipedia [1] BeOS was released in 1995 and the latest > release was in 2000. > > 2. There is Haiku (OpenBeOS) project. Which looks like reimplementation of > BeOS API based on Linux kernel though. I checked Haiku package repository > [2] and didn't find APR/HTTPD packages. > > 3. APR contains separate code for BeOS (like 19 source code files) > > Given all above I suggest to remove BeOS related source code from trunk, > unless someone comes forward and offers to maintain the BeOS code. > > Partially discussed before: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/r9txh2n1xpx3mh0ckrt8xhzvsqr9s56b > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS > [2]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/ > > Thanks everyone for feedback and research on BeOS support topic.
Here is updated summary of findings: 1. According to Wikipedia [1] BeOS was released in 1995 and the latest release was in 2000. 2. APR contains separate code for BeOS (like 19 source code files) and some conditional code (#ifdef BEOS) in "unix" source files. 3. There is Haiku (OpenBeOS) project. Haiku is an active project that aims to be a spiritual successor of BeOS. 4. There are APR, HTTPD and Subversion packages for Haiku ([2], [3], [4], [5]) 5. APR on Haiku doesn't use BeOS specific code [6) 6. When compiling on Haiku BeOS specific preprocessor macros are not defined (BEOS, __BEOS__, BEOS_R5, HAVE_BONE_VERSION). I propose the following plan: 1. Remove BeOS from list supported platforms. 2. Remove BeOS specific source code. 3. Consider adding patches from Haiku ports [7] to APR trunk How does it sounds? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS [2]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/__multipage/pkg/apr/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/1/7/5/-/1/x86_64 [3]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/__multipage/pkg/apache/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/2/4/66/-/1/x86_64 [4]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/__multipage/pkg/serf/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/1/3/10/-/1/x86_64 [5]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/__multipage/pkg/subversion/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/1/14/5/-/2/x86_64 [6]: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/issues/14120 [7]: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/tree/master/dev-libs/apr -- Ivan Zhakov
