On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nicolas Authier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since June 2000 I have installed the BeOS on my machine, just for fun.
> I did work before under Linux (since five years now) and my favorit
> word processor was LyX (I wrote my PhD in physics and final slides with
> this great soft). Do you plan to begin a BeOS port. Could it be very
> hard ?
We have had others express interest in doing a BeOS port also. We are
currently making the dialogs gui-independent and gradually trying to get
everything system independent as well. I'm not sure what development
environment BeOS provides (is it POSIX-compliant? or provide a POSIX
layer?) but you should be able to start a port to the BeOS-GUI fairly
easily. You will need some GNU tools though (autoconf, automake, libtool
for example).
Get a recent snapshot or prerelease and take a look at what's happening in
src/frontends/.
> I love BeOS and I think BeLyX could be a great idea.
It might also make us more aware of multithreading issues since BeOS is
supposed to be "pervasively multithreaded".
Allan. (ARRae)
