SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
O.K. So let's try Solaris. It's the most popular commercial
Unix in
the market, surely it is getting developer support? *Wrong*!
I have been tracking down every weird hang, non-exiting subprocesses
etc etc etc on Solaris _except_ for the EOS stuff. I do not use
Workshop myself (because of the "hanging subprocess problem" caused by
tooltalk, that I have been unable to find) and moreover there are lots
of different versions of the product.
Please note that the Sun XEmacs versions has the text "SunSoft
provides support for the Workshop integration only". That however
means that if EOS crashes, you first knock on Sun's door. I heard
rumours that they indeed improved the thing in the upcomming Workshop.
So Solaris is very well supported, except for
1. EOS
2. Solaris 2.6. Most of the new weird stuff reported by XEmacs users
is on 2.6. It might or might not have something to do with the
new OS. This will change as more of use move too 2.6.
(For me there is currently one unresolved problem with 2.6 that was in
2.4. the guy has aggreed to wait for 21.0 and then we try again
to find it.)
We continue to get crash reports with annotations tickled by the EOS
support. There have been hundreds if not thousands of these reports
since they've been aimed at me.
So where are they? I can only see the ones that also come on
c.e.xemacs. As far as me is conserned bug reports go into a black hole
because we lack any kind of bug tracking system. (Bugzilla looks
good).
Is there any developer running with Sun Solaris? Hello?
Calling me a developer is stretching things, but yes I use XEmacs on
Solaris and it works very well thank you.
Jan