This page is a collection of API changes we intend to make as soon as we drop BeOS backward compatibility. Feel free to add comments concerning any API removal/change/addition to be done.

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General:

• 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

POSIX:

• Drop stat_beos in favor of stat.
• Switch to a 64-bit time_t (bigtime_t).
• Switch to musl over glibc.
• Maybe implement some non-standard POSIX pieces that Linux/BSDs have? e.g. ptrace (would be nice for GDB/QtCreator porting)
• Multiuser! (some general things that need to be cleaned up at the same time: ​Tracker's ConfirmChangeIfWellKnownDirectory).

Application Kit:

• Integrate the functionality of BInvoker::InvokeNotify() into BInvoker::Invoke() and make BInvoker::InvokeNotify() available for gcc2 apps only.

Support Kit:

• Replace BAutolock with a proper template based AutoLocker, like the one we have in shared already.
• convert_encoding_open() convert_encoding_close() with respect to UTF-8, #976 (or perhaps drop textencoding altogether and create a ByteArray class in the Support Kit that can handle encodings?)

Interface Kit:

• Derive BView from BLayoutItem and drop BViewLayoutItem.
• 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) HTML as input and as output.
• 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 ​FreeDesktop's spec.

Media Kit:

• The API uses add_on and AddOn, but also addon - the latter should be faded out.

Tracker:

• FilePanel does not use layouts due to ​the Be Book's recommendation for developers to mess with the layout if they needed to.