Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a moving target, but it can be defined roughly like this: > - All platforms with a Unix like API, that are not older than ca. 6 years. > This leads approximately to this list: > glibc >= 2.1, MacOS X >= 10.2, FreeBSD >= 4.8, NetBSD >= 3.0, > OpenBSD >= 3.4, AIX >= 4.3.2, HP-UX >= 11.00, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 >= 5.1, > Solaris >= 9, Cygwin, Interix. > - mingw, where possible without too big hacks.
I tend to be a bit more conservative, and say that we support it as long as the original supplier does (but not much longer). For example, Solaris 8 last shipped on 2007-02-16 and so it's still very much alive; Sun's phase 1 (bug-fixing) end date is not until 2009-03-31. I still install and run GNU software on Solaris 8 machines on a regular basis.
