As reported over at Haiku News, Xentronix is ceasing development on BeOS/Zeta/Haiku platforms and focusing entirely on the MacOSX platform. It’s very sad to see them go, but it looks as if Frans, et al, took a hit, both financially and in faith, during the recent Zeta troubles. Can’t say that I can blame them. For the details, head on over to Haiku News to read all about the email Remi received from Frans.
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June 4th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Not a surprise. If you like to develop software and sell it, BeOS/Haiku/ZETA is just pointless now. Not even Linux is a good market. You’re left with Windows or Mac, which one would you choose?
I will continue to develop AtomoCAD for Haiku, but my target is OS X now.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Perhaps Haiku will somewhat reinvigorate the market for commercial development, but it’ll be hard to support anything beyond quickly done/low-complexity products.
June 5th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
You know what? Quickly done/low-complexity products done well work just fine for me! The simpler, the better and maybe that should be a mantra for a while for Haiku. I would like simple apps that just work. We can add bells and whistles later! Biffuz, thanks for taking the time to continue developing AtomoCAD for Haiku and I completely understand why you want to build for MacOS X as well. Good Luck!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:15 am
How hard would it be to port QT Framework to Haiku/BeOS? Then devs dont have to choose platform, they can get a port easily done in days or even shorter.
June 8th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Hi Konrad,
I’ve not verified it, but I suspect there are some threading primitives that QT Framework may use that exist on other OS’s (WaitMultipleObjects and stuff like that) that BeOS/Haiku has no support for, and would be a PITA to implement.
Thus, if my suspicions are correct, porting that would be a nightmare, even if the GUI details of BeOS don’t cause other problems, as well as other things I’ve not mentioned that I may not know/suspect about specifically.