Re: Support for BeOS in APR-trunk

[Branko Čibej]

On 16. 5. 26 17:09, Ivan Zhakov wrote:

On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 14:11, Ivan Zhakov <i...@apache.org> 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

Sounds like a better plan, +1

-- Brane