Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [Richard Hess]
> > Why a native port? I'm mostly interested in Japhar as an add-on to
> > the BeZilla project which is by it's very nature NSPR based.
>
> To get better speed and check if Japhar is as portable as it should
> be. :-)
i dunno -- nspr is pretty speedy. faster than freebsd's threads,
anyway :)
> > If I take the Japhar/NSPR route, how much of the stuff in arch/ can
> > I skip?...
>
> Well, NSPR is Chris' domain, but I beleave you will have to check the
> DLL and signal handling.
yup. the DLL stuff could (and probably should) have an NSPR ifdef in
it as well, which would save you from most of the work you'll have in
porting.
> You will probably have to check the AWT code too. It is brand new,
> and not stable yet, so expect monsters. :-)
that and the fact that the awt stuff is completely motif based. not
likely to be very useful to the beos port yet.
also, the oji stuff as it stands has unix dependencies. these will
have to be addressed soon as well.
xtoph
