On Sun, 10 May 2026 at 16:16, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 8:41 AM Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10. 5. 26 14:11, Ivan Zhakov wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 1. According to Wikipedia [1] BeOS was released in 1995 and the latest >> release was in 2000. >> >> 2. There is Haiku (OpenBeOS) project. Which looks like reimplementation >> of BeOS API based on Linux kernel though. I checked Haiku package >> repository [2] and didn't find APR/HTTPD packages. >> >> 3. APR contains separate code for BeOS (like 19 source code files) >> >> Given all above I suggest to remove BeOS related source code from trunk, >> unless someone comes forward and offers to maintain the BeOS code. >> >> Partially discussed before: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/r9txh2n1xpx3mh0ckrt8xhzvsqr9s56b >> >> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS >> [2]: https://depot.haiku-os.org/ >> >> >> >> Granted the headers are in a strange place (see attached), but they're >> there. I can build Serf and Subversion on Haiku. >> >> -- Brane >> >> > Haiku is an active project that aims to be a spiritual successor of BeOS. > > Haiku does not use the Linux kernel [1]. > > There are APR [2], httpd [3], Serf [4], and Subversion [5] packages for > Haiku. > > From browsing there, it isn't clear whether these Haiku packages depend on > the BeOS support code in APR. It also isn't obvious whom to contact to ask. > I recommend not to remove this code until we can find out more. > > I agree we should not drop support for Haiku. The question is whether Haiku depends on BeOS support code or not. -- Ivan Zhakov
