Re: RDA on Solaris and Win32

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

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).

Kevin