On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 03:25:37PM +0200, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > Hi, PalmOS developers,
> >
> > This is to let everyone know that I, Michael Sokolov, the prc-tools-0.6.0 guy,
> > am back! I have been away from PalmOS development for two months and wasn't
> > responding to PalmOS-related E-mail, list or direct, but now I'm back!
>
> <snip>
>
> i had to add my 2c on this topic - but please listen to the points i
> wish to make. the discussion of the "Zen of UNIX" and "non commercial"
> development is total garbage. Linux *was* FREE, and totally open source,
> developed by other UNIX-savvy people all over the world - but now? they
> are commercial.. lets just look at the distributions.. RedHat, Debian
> etc.. so much for "non commercial".
>
> Michael: i have no objections to you developing prc-tools-0.6.0, but..
>
> *i personally* dont mind John Marshall working on it, from within Palm.
> you were "gone" for two months? John has always been around. now,
> from a support standpoint, i think i would prefer knowing that there
> is someone (at least one person) out there that is available from
> Palm for support.
Adding my two Yen (Think for(x...) to this...
In this case I don't see the code forking as a bad thing. The
Marshall fork is 2.95.2, is attempting to allow multiple code segments
(without going to GLibs), but doesn't do GLibs, and does free A4 as
another register since it apparently does A5 like the other Palm apps.
(Is there a Palm shared lib standard? - how does mathlib do it?
Shouldn't GCC be able to generate these?)
But that is a major change and still has some hiccups so I can't use
it for everything I am doing. So it is nice to still have GLibs
supported and fixes to the traditional system.
(I also wonder why CODE0001 can't simply be the run-time linker, with
higher numbers being the objects, maybe with corresponding rloc
resources and rlib for libraries or something - there are a lot of
ways to do it).
I assume there will be a merge sometime though not very soon. For
most things, either will work. And hopefully optimization will get
better (e.g. it manages to use dbra, but not integrate the condition)
and they will steal from each other.
Personally I don't like the war of words of the "My little red wagon
is brighter than yours!" variety. It will be obvious as the
development happens which track is better and thus who has the better
ideas. Go for it. But I want to see fewer lines of code per function
instead of more lines of email saying how wonderful it will be.
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