[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove BeOS and OS/2 native threads support

Måns Rullgård mans
Sat Apr 24 13:29:58 CEST 2010


"Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:

> Le Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:16:50 +0100, Mans Rullgard a ?crit :
>> These are unmaintained and reportedly broken.  Both systems have
>
> Did you try it ? :p

No, that's why I said they are "reportedly" broken.

>> pthreads implementations which can be used instead.
>
> This is wrong. Haiku has, BeOS doesn't.

Does anyone use the original BeOS nowadays?  Does it even run on
modern hardware?

> But since I don't have much time I'd rather have it working without 
> threads than not working at all...

It can easily be resurrected at any time.  Keeping broken code in the
repo with no intention of fixing it serves no purpose.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com



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