> On Dec 20, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Terry Moore <t...@mcci.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing as nice as Franz Lisp. Internal little utilities for which we don’t
> have source handy and/or we're too lazy to rebuild. I have a (licensed)
> version of Unipress Emacs, but I finally gave up and rebuilt that around the
> 5.0 transition because of X issues; and as I'm the only user here for that,
> and I've finally moved on, it's only the old utilities. It's always just been
> cheaper (in time) to dig up the 0.9 emulation. We've been running NetBSD
> since 1994 or so, I think, so these kinds of things accumulate. If github had
> been around in 1994 they'd probably all be open source and readily buildable.
> But...
>
> The big issue with maintaining older tools is that they don't always
> recompile with new compilers; even if they actually work. People make the
> toolchains more and more persnickety, and it's just not worth the effort to
> track the compiler flavor of the week, when the problem is not that the tools
> are wrong, but that they were written with a more "assembly-language in C"
> mindset. Which is seriously out of style.
Ok, you win :-)
-- thorpej
