Re: portability of xargs

[Bob Friesenhahn]

It it really expected that Autotools should support 32 year old 
systems?

This feels counter-productive to me.

I have been told by several people (who have much more self-esteem 
than me) that a build tool called 'cmake' is far more portable than 
Autotools so maybe we should make support for 32 year old systems 
cmake's responsibility?

I am fond of systems from the early/mid '90s but it seems better to 
support POSIX compliant systems with newer software.

People who have somehow figured out how to keep old hardware running 
without disk drives, electrolytic capacitors, or fans, can install 
older GNU software first in order to bootstrap sufficiently to a 
sufficient level of POSIX compliance.

The well-built systems I bought prior to 2007 are already dead or 
difficult to repair.

I do not see any reason to spend any time at all supporting an OS 
older than 2008.

Bob
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