On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Patrick B. wrote: > Seems that one should be graceful for getting an answer at all because > other people in this mailing list probably don't even bother reading a > message if there's a 'forbidden word' like win32 in the subject. ;) > Anyway, if the only reason is that win sucks, I don't care; I don't do > this for personal entertainment. Are you sure about your statement, > did you ever hear of someone who tried it and failed? Could you please > be more precise and list at least the most important of those 'many > reasons'?
Pointless? Yes, probably. Impossible? No, probably not. Are you intending to port the whole set of unix syscalls, api etc first? I think that it would probably be quicker to start from scratch than trying to port something as complex (and inherently unix-tied) as courier, unless you use some sort of unix portability layer in between (cygnus32 or whatever it's called nowadays). Quite a few complex systems run under cygnus32 and similar, including perl. If you said you'd be doing this out of intellectual curiosity, or for fun, then I'd say good for you, let's hear about it when you get it to run. If you intend to do this for work, to be installed on paying customers' win32 machines, then I'm sure that there are other, better, quicker, cheaper solutions available to you. cheers, stef -- Dr Stefan Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inty.net Developer, Intelligent Network Technology Ltd 1700 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4UA, UK _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
