| From: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 13:34:07 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
At 11:15 AM 9/15/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:40:42PM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>
> > >The solution is pretty simple: Don't include tools to create native
> > >binaries.
> >
> > Elate needs to be able to dynamically translate VP to native,
> > which means that the translators have to be there. There is
> > little you can do to prevent users from using them as well.
>
>You didn't get the point: The translation of VP->native is
>completely hidden from the user (he couldn't care less).
>If Amiga doesn't supply a compiler which directly produces
>native code, then people simply cannot produce applications
>which contain tools in native (ie. non-VP) code. They must
No, you didn't get the point. The technology needed to translate
VP to native _will_ be there, as Elate needs to use it itself. Now
the only thing you can do is stop providing a convenient access to
users with command line tools like "translate" & co. But still, the
real stuff will be there, as the translation needs to be done, be
it statically or at load-time. Only, it will be a bit more hidden,
less accessible, less convenient, whatever. But still there. So
in the long run you won't be able to prevent users to use it,
just the same way that the OS itself is using it.
Regards<
G.
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