At least a long time ago, one of Xastir's selling points was that it built and ran on just about any Unix-like operating system. We had users with really old systems like Sun Solaris and so forth, and Linux was just one of many.
At this point, those systems might legitimately be considered "retrocomputing". The problems recently brought up with new versions of autoconf (see https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/202) make it important to have a discussion of how important this "support old systems" aspect of Xastir remains. If the user base feels it is no longer at all relevant, then the solution to GNU software that rapidly marks old things as "obsolete" is just to go with the flow and make Xastir track modern systems and only modern systems. If folks are still running Xastir on old versions of OSen or old computers with long-unsupported operating systems, then we can still deal with issues such as #202, it just takes more work (e.g., instead of using macros that GNU autoconf developers consider "obsolete", we write our own that do the same and don't yell at users about their obsolescence). So, is there anyone left who is basically using Xastir in a retrocomputing environment? -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
