[mobius-development] Yet more questions...sorry :)

[Francis D. R. <Fr...@ro...>]

Hi again everyone,

Sorry I haven't been posting much for the last couple of months -- 
school etc. is catching up with me I'm afraid. Anyway, I've got a couple 
of questions/things to say (hence the title):

1) Welcome back Tim! I saw your post on alt.os.development, and all I 
can say is...you lucky bugger! :) (For those who don't know what I'm on 
about, a certain someone just managed to get the all-elusive 
broadband).  So does this mean we'll see more Mobius hd images uploaded 
so those who can't get the source to compile can still try it out? ;)

2) Well, I've been giving the Mobius a break for a while, then came back 
to it again the other day. I digged out my trusty Cygwin installation, 
grabbed the latest cvs sources of 'mn' and tried compiling again. I've 
tried everything, from tweaking the makefiles to voodoo magic :) and it 
still doesn't work :(. WARNING! Favour request: could someone tell me 
*exactly* (version numbers, too) which Cygwin packages they have 
installed, what they tweak in the sources &/or makefiles to get it to 
compile...just about everything that they do to get it to compile. I'm 
getting desperate here. Then again, if no one wants to, then fair 
enough. A hd image uploaded every 2 weeks (or when a major change takes 
place) would be *extremely* useful... ;)

3) Right, time for me to at least try to earn my keep. I think I'm going 
to have a go at porting some programs to Mobius, and also to create some 
new ones. Nothing fancy, just more-or-less essential stuff that one 
would use from day to day, really. This is where the hd image comes into 
play again. A hd image that is up to date with the latest cvs sources 
and a SDK uploaded at about the same time would be very very useful, and 
would allow me to start getting to work. Failing that, if anyone could 
help me compile the Mobius (read the above; I'm no newbie at compiling, 
but I honestly don't know why this isn't working :() then I'd be greatly 
grateful :).

4) Tim (or anyone else who has a big say as to what happens to this 
project), would it be better for existing libraries and APIs and such to 
be ported to the Mobius (Allegro (that'd be a toughie), ncurses etc. 
perhaps) or would it be better for new libs and APIs to be designed from 
the ground up? I suggest the former, but maybe there's a good reason to 
*not* do that, I don't know.

5) Hmm...if/when Mobius reaches the lofty heights of POSIX compliancy 
(is that a goal, or is it just too *NIXy and unnecessary?) and/or 
implements the entire ANSI C library (I'm not sure if you've already 
done this or not) it would be really easy to port applications, would it 
not? I mean, all that would be needed is a recompile, and there'd be a 
massive selection of software already available...then I'd be out of 
that job :)

Whew, been some time since I made a long message like that thar one 
there. Heh, even though I'm giving OS dev a rest, the Mobius is still 
one of my primary projects and I can't wait for any more exciting 
developments. Anyway, I hope you're all well, and that life and coding 
is going well in general for you lot.

Francis Rounds