Oo, oo, I'd really appreciate a bsd builder. Thanks, Hershel
On 1/17/10 1:12 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > Richmond Mathewson wrote: > >> Personally, I'm extremely 'turned on' by this bit: >> >> "Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC, >> Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD >> UNIX, Linux Intel, and LinuxPPC." >> >> most of those options have become Boojums with RunRev; i.e. they have >> softly and silently >> vanished away. >> >> which is an awful shame > > We need a show of hands of how many people actually would use those > platforms. Last count, almost zero, except for Linux -- which is the > variant the team chose to continue to support. The time and effort to > produce engines optimized for each 'nix variant can't be justified by > the tiny or non-existent number of people likely to use them. The 2.1 > engines were made for MetaCard by Dr. Raney. There were almost no takers > for those platforms even back then, and now that Linux is the most > popular, there are virtually none. Personally I'm very happy that the > engineers are working on the engines that most people use. > >> >> NOW . . . the big and burning question has to be . . . How many of the >> features implemented >> after RR 2.2.1 will function in builds made with 'Mortal Engines' ? > > Anything implemented in later engines will of course fail in older ones. > I'm surprised you had to ask. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
