On Jun 6, 9:05 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Then Solaris became free and open source.
>
> Well, you still have to register for the privilege to download
> security fixes and that is annoying. I am sure that many people once
> they get Solaris up and running will be turned off by that. Solaris
> 10's package selection mechanism is a joke [unfulfilled dependencies
> are not resolved automatically on request, but you can try until you
> can figure it out :)], but Indiana will hopefully fix that.
There is no big deal in registering. I don't have a problem with that.
There is no charge for it.
> > BTW, are there any other ports planned, like HP-UX? I have a HP-UX box
> > here, but it has not been switched on for many years. I also have
> > tru64 on a Dec Alpha, IRIX on an SGI Octane and AIX on a large IBM
> > server, but none of the machines have been on for years. About time I
> > got rid of them I guess!
>
> I have access to a multi CPU Dec Alpha with loads of RAM, but I don't
> see any benefit from porting besides the potential bugs exposed.
Me neither, but the bug benefit can be quite significant.
> In the end
>
> * Windows x86, x86-64
> * OSX x86, x86-64, ppc, ppc 64
> * Solaris x86, x86-64, Sparc
> * Linux x86, x86-64, Itanium
>
> will cover the vast majority of available hardware out there.
Agreed.
> > But I know from my efforts on ATLChttp://atlc.sourceforge.net/thatbuilding
> > software on multiple
> > platforms tends to find a lot of bugs, which don't show up on platform
> > A, but the bugs are there, ready to surface at some later date. ATLC
> > has been built on many platforms including a Sony Playstation and a
> > Cray supercomputer.
>
> I agree with you that this is a big benefit of porting to
> "miscellaneous" platforms and the port to Linux/ppc for example has
> turned up some interesting bugs that later popped up elsewhere (#1337
> is a good example). That being said once we have the high priority
> port targets working [basically the list above] I am more than
> interested to port to something else provided you gave a shell account
> for me to play with. But we do cover quite a large range of hardware
> and finding targets that are viable is getting harder and harder. And
> it doesn't look like we are running out of bugs to fix anytime soon ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
To be honest, I can't be bothered to get these machines out of
mothballs. I think the HP has a partially installed OS, as I started
to upgrade it, but got distracted and do had to leave it.
I do know one guy who is interested in Mathematical software and runs
HP-UX. He has run Mathematica on HP-UX anyway. He might be interested
in doing a port, but I don't know. It's not something I have too much
interest in, but I do feel the potential to undercover bugs is quite
significant.
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