The problem is that there are NO programmers left that code native amigaoid os software so we need to port toolkits and linux stuff. But i'm not complaining as i'm liking the QT port as well as the mplayer and other linux ports
Of course thats not my "premise" did you read my post?
Broadblues, besides you Spirantho, djkirri and a handful of others who do we have coding native os4 programs?
I dont see how this is really an arguable point. Just look at the actual os development how slow. There are only a few people in the world that can code AMIGA api stuff. Most of the big ones are involved in core os4 and Morphos teams, outside of that very small.
Even when I was with Genesi and we had finance for development it was VERY hard to get native stuff done. Look what happened with MOrphos in 20003 almost fell apart after Zapek quit. The point is there are very few guys left. Luckily Ralph S and Frank M are very devoted to the platform.
Where would os4 be with literally 2 guys the Freiden brothers? You are talking less than 100 developers gloably who could or would want to actively code for Amigaoid systems.
Yes the Frieden brothers are certainly core OS4 devs, but sadly, certain hostile factions on various forums appear to have driven them away from daily interaction with AmigaOS4 users.
When i sow Qt i start become sed because i know from another website Alfkill sell his X1000 probably the Qt project is totally ended... sed because linux PPc version now is in 5.6
Did anything came out of this? This andst guy doesn't seem to have had much interest in it anyway.
No. At least, nothing that I've heard of.
I've personally stopped using wxWidgets altogether. While I like the idea behind it, the overall project has (IMHO) stagnated. For example, the planned ports to Android/iOS haven't materialized.
This is all backwards for better, easier future ports we need MUI ported to at least linux, get them to use our superior (relativly lightweight) GUI instead of trying to port their overbloated offerings
Amiga user since 1985 AOS4, A-EON, IBrowse & Alinea Betatester
Well Mui/Reaction is too basic for complex applications, this my impression, this way like my own GUI's not restricted to basic gui elements.
Once thins is ported to Linux, things mutate,
Take Allegro5 vs Allegro4, well basically it the same thing but in Allegro5 they renamed every function, this ok in linux world where different versions of same library can exist at same time, in Amiga land, this does not work, when library is loaded, it shared.
Well it can be worked around for sure, but it's not the Amiga way.
We can use .so files like do for ports, and use symlinks and stuff like that to solve this, but then you import the Linux mess.
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