Re: [bug-inetutils] NetBSD support.

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

>    Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    > Dear all,
>    >
>    > tisdag den  6 december 2011 klockan 10:48 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>    >> Simon's comments were spot on.
>    >
>    > So neither of you found the temptation to be compelling.!
>    > Then I will continue, all the more so since I would like
>    > to implement support in Inetutils for libtinfo. It is a
>    > broken out, minimal part of libncurses5 that still contains
>    > setupterm(3) and tgetent(3), exactly what we need for our
>    > TELNET server and client. Unless you object I will have
>    > a go at that in a coordinated effort together with the
>    > libtermcap support needed for NetBSD.
>
>    Please do!  I think you will be able to test this better than we could,
>    since you seems to have the environment up and running on several
>    hosts.  I'll try to do code review, but don't let that stop you from
>    pushing things into the repository...
>
>    ...within reason, I still think we should try to get a release out ASAP.
>    I'll take a look at the latest platform-testers report, but we may
>    simply declare that we aren't portable to some systems.
>
> I think that is fine, we have added support to some systems, and can
> continue that work after release.  But I think it would be good to
> fully support the systems that we say we support.

Do we have such a list?  To me, if we support, say, Hurd, gNewSense,
Debian squeeze, maybe a recent Ubuntu we could make a release.  Mats is
already testing BSD and Solaris systems.  Are there any platforms we
want to support that we know doesn't work?

/Simon