Re: FYI: `Document' qnx (Was: Various systems)

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:

Pavel> I'm worried about the political side of the problem. Once QNX
Pavel> is there other people will want to put other OS'es into the
Pavel> manual.

That's definitely my wish!


Pavel> The problem is that the documentation for programs, especially
Pavel> for commercial programs tends not to mention the existing
Pavel> problems, at least from the point of view of an Autoconf
Pavel> developer, i.e. I don't expect to see the description of the
Pavel> shell bugs on the HP-UX site.

Yes, I agree.  This is not exactly the point.  What I want, is some
form of small database on what you might be willing to know when your
start working on portability.  For instance, I'd like to list all the
OSes we know, and their release dates.


Pavel> Notably, the problem with the error status after foo=`bar` is
Pavel> not described in the sh documentation on the QNX site.

They might not even not know it.



Pavel> I mean, you cannot document everything. The world
Pavel> changes. Restrict yourself to the relevant facts. "Hundreds
Pavel> processors" are not relevant and sound like advertizing. And I
Pavel> sound like RMS :-)

Yeah, I agree my text is not too good.  The thing is I'm not a user,
and I heavily inspired myself from the QNX site itself.  I'd prefer
that some user, such as Daniele, do it, but an impetus is needed, and
I meant to make it.


>> I very much agree the real content is and will be there.  There
>> must be listed and classified the failures we know, and certainly
>> not in Shellology nor Systemology.

Pavel> Ok. If you insist on having the Systemology section I'll try to
Pavel> put more relevant content there. I'm updating my .plan

I insist on the fact that I understand your point.  I still want to do
something like this because I think some people might be interested in
such things.  For instance, do you know since when large file support
is in SunOS?  There are questions like this that I'd like to see
answered somewhere.  And then, naturally, I believe the Autoconf
documentation is a good place for this.