On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Niksch wrote:
The thing which is preventing the release of 1.3.7x as a stable 1.4 tree is lack of deployment and testing by users. There has been very little feedback both positive or negative on the existing releases. Without this feedback it is very difficult for us to know whether or not it is ready.
I'd be happy to provide feedback on 1.3.7x for the AIX platform if I could get it to work at all. Unfortunately, it looks like the few developers concerned about AIX never actually compile the release code. It looks more
No AIX 5 system so, no. I compile for AIX 4.3.3, because that's what I have. And it's running there modulo a few patches more recent than I have tested because the system was down and I was away.
like they have different variants of CVS snapshots plus their personal set of patches that rarely make it back into the source tree. I am not sure how
Well, I diffed Hartmut's tree and we had everything I could find.
development for other platforms is done, but if it works in a similar way, I doubt we will ever see a stable cross-platform release again. I don't want to blame the AIX folks or anyone else in particular for this. I can't tell whose fault it is, I just know something is going wrong.
So Solaris, Linux, Darwin are all one platform now? Is that platform "Unix"? ;-)
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