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Re: Portability of preprocessor directives
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Portability of preprocessor directives |
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Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:24:47 -0500 |
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:58:59PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> If the OS isn't supported by the vendor is it really necessary for new
> releases of the tool to support such a beast. If a hobbyist is in need
> of an older release, so be it, let the hobbyinsts help each other.
> Otherwise, there is this term known as ``porting'' that comes to mind.
>
> If you make it known that you need testing for a new release and testing
> doesn't happen for the hobbyist, then whose problem is it, yours, I
> think not. Let the hobbyist test when testing is needed or else remove
> support for the untested in the next release from the current.
I assume you're talking about Redhat, for instance.
Have to be fair, you know.
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- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Paul D. Smith, 2003/03/09
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Paul Eggert, 2003/03/10
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Thomas Dickey, 2003/03/10
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Paul Eggert, 2003/03/10
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/10
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives,
Thomas Dickey <=
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/11
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Thomas Dickey, 2003/03/11
- Re: Portability of preprocessor directives, Andreas Buening, 2003/03/11
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Thomas Dickey, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Thomas E. Dickey, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Thomas Dickey, 2003/03/12
- Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives], Earnie Boyd, 2003/03/12