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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
