Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I only saw Paul's message after mostly finishing this one, so feel free > to decide as you like. (I don't know whether Gnulib intends to target > systems that are apparently not of interest to coreutils any more.)
The general rule I use with gnulib-like code is that if the supplier of an operating system doesn't support the OS any more, and supports only a newer, more up-to-date version, then we shouldn't spend much if any time worrying about the older version. This rule is not ironclad, and I can easily imagine counterexamples where there is sufficient real-world user interest, but this case wouldn't be one of them. Ironically, just a couple of days ago I was talking to Mark Kampe, who is teaching our software engineering class this quarter, and who is giving a talk next week about software release management. One of his slides will be about the problem of users who don't upgrade, and about end-of-life strategies. Perhaps I should point him at this thread. On the other hand, since he worked at INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERACTIVE_Systems_Corporation> and quite possibly wrote some of the AIX Version 1 code himself, he won't really need our kibitzing about AIX....
