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From: Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.nu>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] distro cross-building
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:58:17 +0200
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> But the problem here, is that FreeMiNT (and MiNT) is designed to be  
> TOS
> compatible. You can take an executable written for MiNT and it should
> (maybe with some restrictions) run on the Atari without MiNT installed
> as well. You can't do that with shared libraries, obviously.

It's useful that MiNT can run TOS programs, but I fail to see why  
this should be the other way around. Or what the point would be in  
continuing to develop FreeMiNT if it has to stay compatible to a dead  
OS. As far as Atari systems have a future, it's MiNT.

Maybe we should change the meaning back to "MiNT is now TOS" (instead  
of "MiNT is not TOS").. the whole point is to have a modern system -  
because we can. :o)

Besides, supporting shared libs doesn't even really kill TOS  
compatibility, at least not structurally. If someone really needs  
pine.ttp without MiNT (why on earth...) they can always build a  
static version. Gcc runs under TOS too. ;o)

Maurits.