On 5/16/26 5:09 PM, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 14:11, Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]
> <mailto:[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
Regards
Rüdiger
