> Just out of curiousity, how much effort is generally involved > in "porting" an application such as this to z? Is it just a > matter of building it from source on z and making sure > everything works? (Not that even that is in any way a small > efford.) Or are there generally code changes required as well?
Frank: Generally any application which runs on Linux on x86 will compile and run on Linux on z (or Linux on POWER) with few or no changes. The exceptions are those with hardware dependencies (these are often seen in "systems management" type of software which gets down into the kernel). The real effort in any port is in two areas: 1) The installation tools (you would be amazed at how many Linux apps, even server apps, are dependent on a GUI install!) 2) TESTING. Testing can often take as much as half the development cycle and this is pretty much repeated (or should be) on every platform. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
