Simple makefiles alone sure makes sense to explore first -- things are far more standardized, that's true.
Back in 1995 I had to support 4 thread libraries: Pthreads, "draft" Pthreads, Solaris, SGI native, and Win32. I guess that's 5. The most interesting one was SGI, had a process "group" where threads where created via "sproc", a big mmap'ed "arena" for lock synchronization, and Unix signals for sending wakeup in underlying custom-coded condition variables. The SGI debugger worked well too. All interesting and utterly unimportant today :) -Jim On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Jeff Rogers <dv...@diphi.com> wrote: > jgdavid...@mac.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Every few years we talk about what's next for the strategic direction >> of AOLserver which is great. In addition to the ideas below (which >> are cool), I always bring up this question: Should we dump the >> Windows port in favor of a clean Unix code base, configure, build, >> and install? >> >> I wrote most of that weird Windows code, including the goofy nsconfig >> stuff. Some of it was curious, maybe even clever, but in the end it >> was a distraction. It's impact on the config/build process in >> particular was pretty significant. Today's Linux and OS/X >> environments are so much more amenable to Aolserver, with threaded >> Tcl ready to go, gcc/make all pretty stable. It wasn't like that in >> the early days! For me, a purge of the Windows code and then an >> aggressive scan for anything still not 64-bit compatible and cleanly >> build-able using standard configure/gcc/gmake tools would be quite >> refreshing :) > > Even more radically, could we drop autoconf entirely in favor of 2 or 3 clean > makefiles? The general feeling I've gotten is that modern unix platforms are > far less different now than several years ago. > > -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ aolserver-talk mailing list aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aolserver-talk
