walter fry wrote: > Walter_newbe_Freihube here,,,what means backporting ? please..
Porting generally means making a program run on a different environment than it was originally designed for. For example, a game might be ported from Mac to Windows. The effort is primarily in rewriting OS or platform dependent code, which might be extensive. Other less obvious differences are things like word length or byte order. In the FOSS[1] world, people put a fair amount of effort into making software easy to port. (Mostly. (-: ) Backporting means porting something, usually a bug fix, to an earlier rev. of software. For example, most of Linux's USB support was developed for the 2.6 kernel but has been backported into 2.4. [1] FOSS: Free/Open Source Software -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
