From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Mar 19 09:43:18 2004 X-Authentication-Warning: laura.studionet: maurits owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:33:57 +0100 (CET) From: Maurits van de Kamp X-X-Sender: maurits@laura.studionet To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Shared libs without MMU resources In-Reply-To: <1079627332.24920.37.camel@joy.sophics> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Petr Stehlik wrote: > the MiNT and its community is already dead. If there was a direction and > goal, it would probably say that mc68000 is unsupported by FreeMiNT 2.0 > which is to contain the following features This is what I proposed a long time ago. Dropping 68K support (or 4MB for that matter) doesn't mean ST users can't run MiNT anymore, it just means they'll have to stick to 1.16, which is ok since they wouldn't have much use for the new 2.0 features anyway. Bugfixes and new things that ARE interesting for STs could be retrofitted in the 1.x branch. Same goes for dropping compatibility with old legacy problems. You want real Unix power combined with modern AES apps? Run MiNT 2.x. You want MiNT as it is now, compatible with old stuff and still nice pre-emptive multitasking, networking and some other nifty features? Run 1.x. If you view the branches like that, I'd say the 1.x branch is pretty much finished. We can stop feeling guilty and start feeling proud of it.. and start work on 2.0 :) Maurits.