[email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > Mats Erik Andersson <[email protected]> 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
