FreeTDS Development Group

["Varley, David(CBorn at Alcoa)" <David.Varley AT alcoa.com.au>]

> > I'm debating whether a bug that affects lesser used and out of 
> > date platforms (DU 4.0f, ahem we got rid of ours about three 
> > years ago) is 
> > worth the developer time of branching and going through the release 
> > process or just expecting those folks to move onto the CVS or 
> > snapshot 
> > version.  This is not to dis DU, we're obviously going make 
> > sure it works 
> > moving forward, but is it worth the time?
> > 
> 
> Was so old ??
> I didn't know. However this problem is present even in 5.x version
> (parameter order is different from other unices, so.. core if 
> threadsafe
> enabled).

Hmmm, we only bought ours as new systems about 3 years back (April 1999),
to replace OSF/1 Version 3 alphas (some of which are still running), and
that was the latest release of the OS at the time! I know Vn5 was released
(with a $99 personal use licence) but at this stage its not worth going thru
the pain of an upgrade.
They must have changed the __osf__ to __digital__ at the 4->5 transition,
better late than never I suppose. I wonder if __compaq__ ever made it, or
if __hp__ will get a look in? :)

I wouldn't bother spending oto much time on DU, _except_ that with its
64-bit
architecture it makes a good test bed for finding incompatabilities that may
otherwise trip us up later with IA-64 deployment. 

David

> > Brian
> > 
> freddy77