Emmanuel Marty wrote:
>
> Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> > Any improvements that come about as a result of developing the Linux
> > version will not migrate to the DOS version until Michael has a good
> > reason to pause in the Linux advance.
>
> Michael and I have made it so that the DOS and Linux versions build
> from exactly the same sources. Michael insisted very much on that
> point, as he is _not_ leaving DOS and his users for greener,
> unixish pastures. At the moment the linux port isn't complete but
> both versions compile from exactly the same set of sources; there is
> no forking, don't worry.
>
> Getting Arachne to compile under Linux (an environment where most
> buffer overruns, etc. are trapped) is actually helping to find bugs that
> would be a lot harder to find in DOS (which doesn't care at all about
> overruns and all that). When leaks/overruns are found and fixed,
> they are therefore fixed in *both* versions. So the next DOS version
> will have some issues fixed, even if work was concentrated on
> the Linux port!
Ahhhh.
The list is alive again !
Hi Emmanuel;
I'm putting a copy of this exchange into the time vault - I just want to
have it available when Arachne 1.7 comes out. If placing bets that further
Arachne development for DOS will be delayed by development for Linux helps
to make Michael (or you) try to prove me wrong, then I'll place a new bet
every day. <G>
- Clarence Verge
--
- Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
--
