New Haiku Services Kit Takes Shape
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Aug 2010 21:40 UTC, submitted by koki
BeOS & Derivatives This summer, too, the Haikuproject is part of the Google Summer of Code event. One of the more interesting projects is the Services Kit (draft document!) by Christophe "Shusui" Huriaux, which is an API to facilitate the creation of native web-enabled programs using standard web protocols and data exchange mechanisms.
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RE[4]: Forward thinking
by umccullough on Sat 21st Aug 2010 15:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Forward thinking"
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I was under the impression that Haiku was still using the FreeBSD libc except that there were a couple of functions that were changed so that they operate like the glibc implementation rather than the FreeBSD implementation.


I believe they started off with the BSD libc, but switched to glibc for compatibility reasons (since BeOS had used glibc for its "libroot" support).

http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/system/libroot/posi...

Recent discussion suggests that glibc may still be retained only for the BeOS compatibility (i.e. a gcc2-compiled set of libs will still remain optionally-installed for BeOS compatibility) while a non-GPL libc replacement will be grafted in moving forward.

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