On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Steve Friedl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:51:45AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>> >>>>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:11:09 -0400, Alex Burger 
>> >>>>> <[email protected]> said:
>> AB> 4) I don't think we need to support Windows NT anymore and we certainly
>> AB> don't need to support Windows 9x.
>>
>> I'm not sure I buy NT being gone.  I suspect it's still in greater use
>> than it possibly should be.  But again, I'll defer and am not voting.
>
> Sadly, Windows NT4 is still in use by plenty of systems - I still run into
> them in the medical industry attached to CAT scanners and the like - but these
> are legacy systems for which development has been frozen for a long time.
>
> Even if vendors are still [barely] supporting the code - as Microsoft does
> for a big fee - it stretches the imagination that anybody is undergoing
> new development on this platform.
>
> If I were king, I'd be happy to drop NT4 support from the current release
> and invite those poor self-abusing souls who need it to use version N-1
> on that platform.

One possible approach is to keep supporting NT4 in the Net-SNMP 5.4
branch and to make clear that from version 5.5 on Net-SNMP requires
W2K or higher.

I have performed a web search on the keywords "NT4" and "SNMP" in
discussion groups, and the most recent message I could find was posted
in 2004. Most messages were a lot older.

Bart.

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