JB wrote:
> I was reading a little about it and it said it is a open source
> OS built using JAM. Then I read a little about JAM and it said
> JAM has Efficient C bindings*
> Since LiveCode is written in C++ it might mean it could be
> incorporated easily.
"Easily" is relative.
LiveCode is not an island. It's a system that carefully factors our
common LiveCode Script to provide seven different sets of interfaces to
underlying OS calls.
I suppose there are some things that are truly generic across platforms,
but anything touching GUI elements, file systems, or other OS-controlled
things are likely not so "easy" to write all over again for another OS.
Haiku was originally BeOS, a wonderful system with many interesting and
somewhat advanced features.
But after Apple passed on it in favor of the much-more-expensive NeXT,
Be languished, eventually becoming open source under a new trademark as
HaikuOS.
BeOS was an unusual system. I would imagine porting the LC engine to it
would be at least as expensive as porting the Mac build from Carbon to
Cocoa, but without any of Apple's tools or libraries to help.
But then again I've never done C programming for BeOS. If it seems easy
to port LC to it don't let me stop you. :)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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