On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:30:34PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
The way I see it, as long as upstream and 3rd-party software developers are in the position GCC is in - and GCC continues to support such old systems because our users demand it, not because we want to - the constraints those old systems place on our shell scripting *are* your problem.
The bottom line is that the functionality does exist, there is a way to use it, and you choose not to do so. I don't think it is reasonable to expect that unix froze 15 years ago and can never change. If you make a decision that something has to work on a bunch of obsolete platforms, you're going to have to go through gyrations to make it happen. If your instructions can't say "put /usr/xpg4/bin at the front of the path", that's your choice--but don't expect it to constrain the rest of the world. The reason you're in that situation is that sun decided more than decade ago that a transition was too hard. I wonder if they thought at the time that they'd be frozen in place for this long.
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