[B2-devel] MacOS X port of Basilisk II

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Hi,

Thanks to Nigel, I could get the tarballs for the MacOS X port of
Basilisk II. Before committing it to CVS, I have a few comments and
suggestions to make.

1. License. Currently Nigel placed his code into Public Domain. I don't
think it is compatible with GPL. I will add the usual GPL header and add
Nigel's name in all sources he sent me. I need suggestions/agreements
here.

2. Mixing C++ and Objective-C is not quite possible at the current time.
Therefore, Nigel implemented a few C wrappers. However, I think we don't
need them if we declare functions in src/include/*.h with "C" external
linkage. If this approach works, I will remove Nigel's C wrappers and
commit patched versions of includes with various #ifndef __cplusplus__ /
extern "C" clauses.

3. Naming conventions. File names currently have the form
extfs_MacOSX.<extension>. I'd prefer to lowercase them in order to be
consistent with the other ports.

4. Project Builder. Currently, building the MacOS X port requires the
use of Apple's IDE. It would be better to workaround that. i.e. just
typing ./configure (generated) ; make should work.

5. Icon. Though it looks really good, I don't think we can include it
because the background logo is the MacOS happy face.
<http://www.apple.com/legal/>

6. Delays. I have a very busy week right now. So I am not sure if I
could patch/upload everything before next week.

Thanks,
Gwenol=E9.