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authorRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2015-07-27 20:31:20 +0200
committerRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2015-07-28 11:18:44 +0200
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added full Haiku OS support (non x86_gcc2)
* Haiku can be handled like UNIX in most respects since it is POSIX compliant, has a UNIX-like terminal emulator and uses ncurses. * still the Glib platform macro is G_OS_HAIKU instead of G_OS_UNIX, so the preprocessor conditionals had to be adapted. * the only functional difference between a Haiku and UNIX build is the default SCITECOCONFIG path. We use the config path returned by Glib instead of $HOME, so .teco_ini will be in ~/config/settings on Haiku. Other UNIX ports appear to use the same conventions. * Some Haiku-specific restrictions still apply: * Haiku's terminal is xterm-compatible, but only supports 8 colors. Therefore only the terminal.tes color scheme can be used and the terminal must be set up to "Use bright instead of bold text". * The terminal has artifacts. This appears to be a Haiku bug and affects other curses applications as well. * GTK is yet unsupported on Haiku, so there may never be a GUI port (unless someone writes a QT GUI for SciTECO). * SciTECO cannot be built with the legacy gcc2 used for BeOS compatibility on Haiku. This would require too many changes for an obsolete platform. BeOS and the x86_gcc2 platform of Haiku will therefore never be supported. The PPC and ARM platforms of Haiku should work but are untested. * a HaikuPorts recipe will be provided for the next regular SciTECO release. This should hopefully allow installation via HaikuDepot.
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@@ -24,13 +24,15 @@ The Curses frontend is verified to work with [ncurses](https://www.gnu.org/softw
[EMCurses](https://github.com/rhaberkorn/emcurses).
Others might work as well.
-Both Linux and Windows (MinGW 32/64) are tested and supported.
+Linux, Windows (MinGW 32/64) and
+[Haiku](https://www.haiku-os.org/) (gcc4) are tested and supported.
SciTECO compiles with both GCC and Clang.
SciTECO should compile just fine on other UNIX-compatible platforms,
like Mac OS X - however I cannot test it regularily and there is currently no
Mac OS X maintainer.
+However UNIX-compatibility is not strictly required:
Since SciTECO primarily depends on [glib](https://developer.gnome.org/glib/) and
-Curses, it should be easy to port to even more exotic platforms.
+some implementation of Curses, it should be easy to port to even more exotic platforms.
__Warning: The SciTECO language is work in progress and has not yet fully stabilized.
It may change drastically and in backwards-incompatible ways in the repository's