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Re: Cross-platform availability of header files
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Cross-platform availability of header files |
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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:15:28 -0700 |
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On 03/14/2013 08:18 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> we should try to come up with a principled cutoff for how old is too old
A good rule of thumb is: if the maintainer doesn't fix bugs in
the software any more, it's too old. So, for example, in March 2012
Oracle stopped fixing bugs in Solaris 8, which means Solaris 8 is
now too old. Solaris 9 is scheduled to become too old in October 2014,
and so forth.
According to this guideline, recent releases of AIX and HP-UX are not too old:
their bugs are fixed and people are using them.
Re: Cross-platform availability of header files, Thomas Jahns, 2013/03/15
Re: Cross-platform availability of header files, Zack Weinberg, 2013/03/15
Re: Cross-platform availability of header files, Zack Weinberg, 2013/03/20
Re: Cross-platform availability of header files, Trent Nelson, 2013/03/27