At 11:36 15.06.00 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > One thing that would be of great use to everyone, including the os
> > manufacturers themselves would be for each of them to set up some public
> > tinderbox style builds for configure scripts and programs where you
> > could submit jobs to them to test for portability. The compaq one
> > mentioned here previously was a great help for instance.
>> Good idea, but wouldn't help with legacy systems. Looking at the responses
> on the autoconf list, it is sometimes quite surprising what kind of stuff
> people are running. Like OSes even more obscure than Ultrix ;-)
For particular instance one of the qnx guys sometimes compains that configure
related stuff doesn't always work cleanly on qnx. Sticking one of their
machines
up like compaq would help sort that out. Despite the impossibility of hitting
every system it still seems very likely that if sorting out compatibility among
most of the living oses would get you lots of legacy support for free into the
bargain.
Though for qnx Im patiently waiting for "later this summer" to arrive for their
free hosted qnx development environment. http://get.qnx.com/ . Ive always loved
their demo disk http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/ . One of my workmates here is
involved in the muLinux thingy and it amuses me to taunt him with comparisons.
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