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Re: RDA on Solaris and Win32
Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:12:41PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> >On 08 Dec 2004 14:22:18 -0500
> >Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm. It seems that, although RDA includes code for Cygwin and
> >> Solaris, that code is not actually built by default when one
> >> configures the tree in the normal way on those platforms. All you get
> >> is the librda library.
> >>
> >> This means that we can't know if regenerating the auto* files
> >> introduces additional build problems for that platform-specific code
> >> without first making RDA actually build it again. I don't want to
> >> extend the scope of my project to include making the Cygwin and
> >> Solaris native support code build again. But evolving the surrounding
> >> support will inevitably bit-rot that stuff. It's the classic
> >> "unmaintained code" dilemma.
> >>
> >> Ideally, that stuff were made to build again, but limiting ourselves
> >> to actions we can afford to take immediately, what should our policy
> >> be? Here are the options I see, listed in order of decreasing
> >> preference for me:
> >>
> >> a) Declare Cygwin and Solaris native support to be unmaintained in the
> >> README file, but leave the sources in the tree.
> >>
> >> b) Delete the Cygwin and Solaris native support. If someone wants to
> >> resurrect it, it's all in CVS.
> >>
> >> c) Put off upgrading the auto* files until Cygwin and Solaris native
> >> build again and the upgrade can be tested.
> >>
> >> How do other folks feel?
> >
> >I vote for (a).
>
> I thought Corinna Vinschen was maintaining rda for cygwin.
Oh! I'll ask her about it, then. She's been on vacation, which may
be why she hasn't spoken up.