Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/01/2014 11:50 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on supported platform: * Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use * Vendor support * Available to the dev team, i.e. the dev team have access to a suitable environment in which to

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-02 Thread Matt Caswell
On 2 July 2014 13:33, Florian Weimer fwei...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/01/2014 11:50 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on supported platform: * Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use * Vendor support * Available to the dev team,

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/02/2014 02:44 PM, Matt Caswell wrote: I strongly suggest to add 8 bit chars and 32 bit ints as an additional requirement. There is some idea that 16-bit platforms (such as MS-DOS or Windows prior to the Win32 API) are still supported, but this is clearly not the case because a lot of

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre DELAAGE
: den 30 juni 2014 23:43 To: pwal...@au1.ibm.com Cc: openssl-dev@openssl.org Subject: [openssl.org #1610] OS400 patches Very old release, unsupported platform. Closing ticket. G'day, mate. __ OpenSSL Project

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Ben Laurie
On 1 July 2014 06:52, Zoltan Arpadffy z...@polarhome.com wrote: Hi, I see that Rich is doing a fantastic job by cleaning up the backlog... I absolutely agree that very old releases cannot be supported, but what about the platforms? I thought until now, that as long there are developers who

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Matt Caswell
On 1 July 2014 10:50, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On 1 July 2014 06:52, Zoltan Arpadffy z...@polarhome.com wrote: Hi, I see that Rich is doing a fantastic job by cleaning up the backlog... I absolutely agree that very old releases cannot be supported, but what about the platforms? I

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre DELAAGE
Hi, With the second criteria Vendor Support, M$ will dictate easily the openssl roadmap (?!?!?), and, indirectly, will force any openssl win-XX users to migrate to their last wonderful products. Clearly, above common sense, Vendor support is not a proper criteria to offer something like

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: I just started to wonder, will soon come the time when my patches will be also refused with the unsupported platform comment? Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on supported platform: * Currency, i.e. a platform

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Felix Laurie von Massenbach
On 1 July 2014 13:37, Pierre DELAAGE delaage.pie...@free.fr wrote: Hi, With the second criteria Vendor Support, M$ will dictate easily the openssl roadmap (?!?!?), and, indirectly, will force any openssl win-XX users to migrate to their last wonderful products. Clearly, above common

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre DELAAGE
Ok, sounds that some logical operator is missing between criteria : I understood AND while you suggest it is OR ELSE Hope you are right...but not sure.. Pierre Le 01/07/2014 15:42, Felix Laurie von Massenbach a écrit : On 1 July 2014 13:37, Pierre DELAAGE delaage.pie...@free.fr

RE: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Salz, Rich
I thought until now, that as long there are developers who are willing to develop for a certain platform and there is some community interest in using that - the platform will be supported as odd might it be in the Windows and Linux dominated World. With the releases now in github, one

RE: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Salz, Rich
Hope you are right...but not sure.. Neither are we. That is why the current roadmap says that we're working on it. It's important to realize that supporting a platform incurs a cost, and we need to have some way of making the appropriate trade-offs. Clearly, we don't want to end up where

Re: Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre DELAAGE
Of course supporting a platform is incurring some costs, ...that can be shared with the community: this is one of its purpose. I would like to point out that for some platform, devteam could propose a limited support/usability statement : Typically, for WCE on which I am regularly working :

Very old release, unsupported platform

2014-06-30 Thread Zoltan Arpadffy
Message- From: owner-openssl-...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Rich Salz via RT Sent: den 30 juni 2014 23:43 To: pwal...@au1.ibm.com Cc: openssl-dev@openssl.org Subject: [openssl.org #1610] OS400 patches Very old release, unsupported platform. Closing ticket