Guy Harris <ghar...@sonic.net> wrote: > Should we also consider removing support for some older UN*X platforms, > such as:
Yes. > SunOS prior to SunOS 4 - pcap-nit.c; the last such version, SunOS > 3.5, was released in January 1988 > SunOS 4.x - pcap-snit.c; the last such version, SunOS 4.1.5, was > released in November 1994 > HP-UX 9 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; the last such version, 9.10, was > released in early-to-mid 1995 > HP-UX 10 prior to 10.20 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the only such > version, 10.0, was released in 1995 > SINIX - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the last release, Reliant UNIX > 5.45, was released some time in the early 2000s (?) > IRIX - pcap-snoop.c; - the last update was released some time in the > mid-to-late 2000s (?) These are no brainers for me. > DEC OSF/1^W^WDigital UNIX^WTru64 UNIX - pcap-pf.c; the last release, > Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-6, was released in October 2010 I think that there is still some Tru64 out there, so let's remove it, but note that we are open to putting it back. > We don't have any buildbots doing tests of those platforms, and I don't > know when the last test of whether libpcap will compile or work on > those platforms was done. > However, there may well be people using them - pull request #1203: > https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/pull/1203 > was a change to fix libpcap so that it builds on Mac OS X 10.4, the > last version of which, 10.5.8, was released on August 13, 2009. > So the questions are: > 1) Which of these have a significant user base? I don't think much outside of museums, and they likely are using the compilers from that era, which are likely not C99. > 2) Which of them have a user base willing to provide a buildbot so > that we check for code rot?
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