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On Monday 25 August 2008, Colin Ward wrote:
> On 25/08/2008, you wrote:
> >> So what happened to keeping allegro clean? Weren't we trying to remove
> >> stuff that had few users? Not add more with fewer users?
> >
> > It's developers that counts, not users. This Amiga port has got one
> > developer, which is a lot more than none like in A4 Windows and DOS
> > ports. We are not going to further develop A4, so if he provides a
> > working port it's likely that it will remain so even without a
> > maintainer.
> >
> > If it breaks only 3 users will complain :P
>
> Actually I broke the rule of international mailing lists when I said that -
> the rule is "don't use sarcasm." :-) When I said 3 users I was being
> sarcastic about the Amiga world being a quite small community. We do have
> many more users than that! And you will find they are very enthusiastic
> about something like Allegro.
>
> To be honest (this sentence is for Thomas), there is no reason for me to
> release the source code onto Subversion or to have anything to do with the
> mailing list even. It's my project, I worked on it for ~12 months and I'll
> release the binaries and keep the source code thank you very much.
>
> But that's not really in keeping with open source ideals is it? So that's
> why I decided to add my source to Subversion because that's giving
> something back. In the Amiga world the situation is similar to the BeOS
> world in that Amiga OS is a failed commercial operating system that is
> still supported by a hard core of fans, and as well as the official OS
> (Amiga OS 4) there are two clones - Morph OS (PPC based) and AROS (x86
> based) that Allegro can easily be ported to with a few #ifdefs in the Amiga
> specific code. While I don't use them myself, by contributing my port back
> to Subversion someone from those communities can easily modify a few lines
> of my port and get themselves a port as well. So now you have three new
> operating systems supported.
>
Well thats good then. I now officially have no complaints :) (well, I have one,
code dumps suck, but I suppose its ok in this case).
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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx