Just an open thought here.
But has any one tried porting OpenTracker to other OS’s ?
Kerr wrote:
Just an open thought here.But has any one tried porting OpenTracker to other OS’s ?
I don’t really know much about the specifics, but I’d imagine that it’d be easier to clone it on other os’s than to port it from all the beos specific stuff that it relies on to work.
it will only work for beos, right? cause it was written for beos api.
It would be possible to write something similar to OpenTracker for another OS. However, queries would not be one of them. Queries depend on the use of BFS for a file system. Quite a few other features depend on filesystem support for attributes. IIRC, NTFS, XFS, ReiserFS, and IBM’s JFS all support attributes.
Actually porting OT to another platform is possible, but a lot of work. I suspect that it would be easier to write a new app that works just like OpenTracker than to port the existing code.
–DarkWyrm