Re: [Octal-dev] porting thoughts

[Bullwinkle J. Moose]

Is there any other way to do Threads in Linux other than P-Threads?  Some time 
back it was
at least implied that when porting, such as to Win32, the threading might be a 
difficulty.
That got me a little curious so i looked around, and there are a couple of ways 
to do POSIX
Threads on Win32 systems.  CygWin (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/) 
provides a great
deal of PThread suport, as well as a variety of other tools to help port Linux 
apps to
Win32.  additionally, Cygnus is also developing a PThreads library for Win32
(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/).  MIT and FSU both put out a 
PThreads
Library for a variety of different UNIX type platforms
(http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/mit-pthreads.html ,
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~mueller/pthreads/).  Mac OS X is based on BSD, and is 
going to
include PThread support.  AtheOS (http://www.atheos.cx/) Claims a High level of 
POSIX
support, implying that if it does not already support PThreads, it could easily 
be made to
do so.  BeOS, in the developer section on its web site, mentions POSIX, and in 
that
section, it also makes brief mention of threads, so it seems BeOS might also, 
atleast
partialy, suport PThreads.  Amiga has a POSIX ... so it seems that aslong as 
the Threading
is keept what is in the P-Threads standard, poring that portion of Octal to 
other Operating
Systems shouldn't be to excessivly difficult, i think, i could be wrong about 
that.
(Sorry, it so long to get to that point...)
Beyond threading and interfacing with the audio hardware, what else would need 
to done to
port Octal to other platforms?  (other that the GUI)