Re: OT - Packages maintaining source for systems no longersupported [WAS: Re: Portability of preprocessor directives]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:27:21AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> > What do you consider a hobbyist system? 
> 
> One that the vendor no longer supports and supplies fixes for and I as a 
> maintainer of the software no longer have no access to test it myself. 
> If it's not even tested how can it be used?  It has a high probability 
> of not working anyway!

bear in mind that Ernie's frame of reference is that anything older than
a year is probably too far into the past to consider (look at his webpage
for an example of his notion of "support").

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