Re: Portability and usage statistics (was Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler() )
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
sb> Gary D Foster <Gary.Foster(a)Corp.Sun.COM> writes in
sb> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> This talk of only supporting linux disturbs me deeply. I
> cannot possibly believe that anyone is seriously considering
> this?
sb> I'm not seriously considering this. End of discussion.
sb> Except, see below ...
sb> Let's move on to DG/UX and ... forget DG/UX because noone has
sb> ever turned in a build report for that system in my tenure as
sb> XEmacs maintainer. When I tried configuring on such a system
sb> it bombed miserably.
I've also attempted to build on DG/UX. It appears the dumping is
not successful. On the other hand, since DG does not take their
workstations very seriously, it is hard to get excited about it.
sb> O.K. So let's try Solaris. It's the most popular commercial
sb> Unix in the market, surely it is getting developer support?
sb> *Wrong*! We continue to get crash reports with annotations
sb> tickled by the EOS support. There have been hundreds if not
sb> thousands of these reports since they've been aimed at me. Is
sb> there any developer running with Sun Solaris? Hello?
This is being written on a Solaris system with the latest 21.0. But
we use little of the Sun development environment so this is built
with GCC. I doubt that anyone here could meaningfully test EOS
support. Xemacs is used heavily here running under Solaris and CDE
david