Re: RDA on Solaris and Win32

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

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.

cgf