Should we start a common HAL design? Would it be possible/desired to implement ABI compatible HAL?
William Lahti wrote: > I think we need to put down our grenades-- I understand the need to > express the frustration as I have on occasion as well (and furiously), > but hopefully soon we can give up on the grenade lobbing and forgive > any issues we've had in the past, not only for our own peace of mind > but for the good of the idea (as opposed to the "tribal pride" model). > > As I've said, license issues *do* block us from sharing code > specifically but code isn't the only thing that can be shared. Even if > we never come to a point where we resolve our differences, we do need > to come to a point where we can peacefully coexist, without tension > between our project developers. This first phase of flaming was > unavoidable given the circumstances. > > As Chad said, driver cross polination is very good example, and since > drivers in SharpOS will be separated by a well-defined ABI, they can > be classified as a separate work from our kernel, and thus be licensed > in a different way. If we wanted to, we could collaborate on driver > APIs, something which has never been covered by either the ECMA > standards nor any non-standard .NET functionality which exists. But if > we completely do nothing, like Bruce said, we will be duplicating a > large amount of effort. And we still haven't really looked at our > (possibly differing) driver visions and consolidated them and it's > possible that such a solution is not practical, but things like this > need to be talked about and now is a better time than ever to do it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers
