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Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>> one dev said me that Mos 3.10 is probably the last main release
>> for ppc, a bug fix will come after but the goal is to change
> what hasn't been said, is how long the current ISA will be supported.
The above reads like MorphOS 3.11.
IMHO, an ISA change and a feature leap so fundamental that it breaks backwards compatibility, definitely warrants a ”4.0” version number. It will essentially be something different anyway (a separate version branch would help highlighting that, and keep the old/new separated for less confusion), even if it will be released for current PPC systems as well. So a question of ”how long the current ISA will be supported” isn’t really the issue, since a 4.0 version for PPC wouldn’t be the same as a what a 3.12 version for PPC would have been anyway.
I suppose releasing a PPC version of 4.0 would be kind of trivial, probably mostly a matter of choosing that ISA as a target when compiling. Question is, why bother? What would be the point? And wouldn’t two ISA’s (or more, ARMv8 would perhaps make even better sense) mean a potentially troublesome split in focus and support for both OS developers and application developers?
MorphOS is Amiga
done right! MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!