Le 9 avr. 05, à 08:29, Jesse Ross a écrit :
Quentin: ...That's precisely what DragonFlyBSD VFS should allow when
finished (this year probably)...
David: ...Nicolas suggested a while back that he would be interested
in building a GNUstep-based system on top of DragonflyBSD to take
advantage of some of the low-level message passing mechanisms it
provides for distributed objects. This could also be interesting,
although I believe that Dragonfly is currently x86 only...
Alex: ...I personally really really like DragonflyBSD, and wouldn't
mind seeing a GNUstep-based desktop OS built around it, but its
hardware support is also lacking...
Alex: ...FreeBSD and possibly DragonflyBSD are still options, as well
as Linux...
Many of its technical goals seem to be good fits for some of the
things we would like to implement in Étoilé. Not to mention is already
has a working LiveCD implementation.
Yes, moreover they have done very good work with their new installer
(written from scratch) <http://www.bsdinstaller.org/>, we could write a
GNUstep frontend for it pretty easily (ncurses and CGI frontends exist
currently, QT and GTK frontends seems to be planned).
I read on the GNUstep Platform Compatibility page <
http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/
Platform_compatibility#DragonFly > that Quentin is/was also working on
the port of GNUstep to DragonFly. What is the current status of that,
Quentin?
Mostly finished, -make, -base are now working and -gui is compiling but
doesn't work (because of linker problems I haven't found time to fix).
I need to submit various patches now for gnustep-make, gnustep-base and
gnustep-gui on GNUstep side and also some patches on DragonFly side for
its make system and its custom GCC version.
I stopped to work on theses DragonFly things in February, DragonFlyBSD
1.2 is out now, so I will try to have these changes included for the
next release.
Obviously we're not yet ready to jump on the DragonFly bandwagon, but
it might be useful for us to continue to track and explore that OS,
and perhaps even get into a discussion with members of their
development team about integration efforts.
Yes, I have thought about it in the past.
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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