Re: argz whitespace

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
> | What qualifies a platform as not being worth porting to?
>
> It's somewhat subjective.  The gnulib mailing list has come up with an
> ad-hoc definition of any platform released within the last 3-5 years, and
> preferably where the vendor has not declared the platform end-of-life,
> while also supporting older platforms where the vendor is still actively
> providing support.  So, as an example, Solaris 4 and Windows 95 are
> generally not viable porting targets (their vendors no longer support

Clearly these are not suitable rules for libtool.  Autoconf and 
libtool need to be dicated by whether the features they need to 
execute are present (might require augmentation such as replacement 
compiler and shell), and not how old the target is, or if its 
manufacturer still cares about it.

I am quite certain that Solaris 2.4 is a solid POSIX-compliant OS 
which is capable of performing useful tasks today just as it did when 
it was released.  It does not have POSIX threads, but it has most 
other useful Unix things that we enjoy today.  Some Y2K and 
daylight-savings bugs may be present but this is not necessarily cause 
to throw the hardware away.

To me, a 5 year old system has reached middle age and a 3 year old 
system is practically new.  Ten years is senior citizen and should 
seek retirement.

Regardless, we should not be changing the libtool 2.2.X install 
footprint for the sake of change.  There should be a good reason.

Bob
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