Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Novell Netware 6.5.

[Andrew Dunstan]

"Eduardo D Piovesam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > > > It's been quite a while ago that I did NetWare programming (3.11 NLM, > > communication protocol for a dbms), and that I had some contact with > > Netware (4.1), but if Novell didn't change the architecture completely > > (I doubt that) the native win32 port won't be of any help for > > They've done the job. Forget all about 3.x / 4.x and even 5.x. No more CLib, > you have now LibC which is a POSIX like API. > > AFAIK, they're finishing some usefull APIs, which'll make the port much more > "easy". The "only difference" will be the "threaded model" instead of > process based... > > NW6.x already have Apache, bash, gcc, mysql, openssh, vnc, etc... thanks to > this "new architecture". > > You can get the 7.2.4 on http://forge.novell.com > Why 7.2.4 I wonder? And I don't see anything there in the CVS repository. I know they are not obliged to show us the source code, but doing so would be nice (especially to see the threading part).   cheers   andrew