Changes between Version 18 and Version 19 of FutureHaiku/APIChangesOnCompatibilityDrop

Timestamp:

Jul 14, 2015, 3:41:13 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

waddlesplash

Comment:

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FutureHaiku/APIChangesOnCompatibilityDrop

@@ -4 +4 @@
  * Redo shared libraries: there should be one library per kit and corresponding names for each. (possible conventions are "libsupport.so", "libSupport.so", "libSupportKit.so")
  * Stop supporting the GCC2 ABI
+ * Switch to LLVM?
 
 '''POSIX:'''
  * Drop stat_beos in favor of stat.
- * Switch to a 64-bit time_t (bigtime_t).
- * Replace glibc with a BSD-licensed alternative.
+ * Switch to a 64-bit time_t (bigtime_t -> time_t).
+ * Replace glibc (use parts of musl? it's MIT licensed).
  * Multiuser! (some general things that need to be cleaned up at the same time: [http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/kits/tracker/FSUtils.cpp#n629 Tracker's ConfirmChangeIfWellKnownDirectory]).
 
@@ -22 +23 @@
  * Create a model/view infrastructure for the column list view and OutlineListView. (maybe look at Qt's [rejected] Model/Views 2.0?)
  * BAlerts should be layout-aware along with all other rich text views.
- * All rich text views should accept (simple) styling as input and as output (maybe HTML).
+ * All rich text views should accept (simple) style markup as input and as output (maybe HTML).
  * Add a BToolbar API (the currently-shared BToolBar should be a good basis, it needs support to add arbitrary BViews)
    * Also need standard icons resources, probably following [http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html FreeDesktop's spec].
+ * Cleanup BTabView -- get rid of the non-layout version. (Terminal may need a rewrite...)
 
 '''Media Kit:'''
  * The API uses add_on and AddOn, but also addon - the latter should be faded out.
+ * Get rid of R5 compatibility stuff (and R3 (!) compatibility stuff).
 
 '''Tracker:'''