It was a technical one. Making it win32-capable added a lot of code noise and Jim D. asked the group at one of the chat sessions if there was any reason not to drop win32 support, at least for 4.x. He wanted to focus on cleaning up and improving the codebase and not spend a even more time on win32 portability issues, especially with regards to threading.
/s. > Was the decision to drop Win32 support on AOLServer 4.0 a political one or a > technical one? > Was the decision to drop Win32 support on AOLServer 4.0 a political one or a > technical one? > It seems as though there are some demand for Win32 support and as AOLServer > gains momentum, why limit its reach by not supporting Win32 systems? (not > trying to rant) > > -----Original Message----- > From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Dossy > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Any demand for AOLserver 3.4.2 for Win32? > > > On 2001.12.18, Kriston Rehberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll try to get one going, I'm finishing up a class on C++ that uses > > MS VC++ and I might be able to apply that knowledge to the Win32 build > > especially when it comes to getting those %*#Q&$! extra modules like > > nscgi and nsssl built. > > Heh. nscgi builds under Win32, it just doesn't actually execute > CGI's. At least, on my Win98 SE setup here, trying to execute > a simple .bat CGI hung the box hard and required a reset-switch > warm boot. Thread problems, I'm guessing. (Probably needs to > use CreateProcess() or ShellExecuteEx() under Win32 ...) > > > For AOLserver 4.x, can anyone please try out building it with the > > current Cygwin? > > Did that already. No joy. Perhaps Larry's comment may solve > the problem though: > > On 2001.12.18, Larry W. Virden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that I believe that Tcl itself doesn't compile using the Cygwin > > compiler - you need the Mingw32 compiler with the flag saying that you > > want it to run under Cygwin I think - details are over in comp.lang.tcl > > I guess I'll have to install Mingw32 and try it out. > > However, I still ask: won't the performance loss of running under > Cygwin make running AOLserver under Cygwin unattractive? > > -- Dossy > > -- > Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > > >
