Guy Harris wrote:
> Should we also consider removing support for some older UN*X platforms,
> such as:
Yes.
> SunOS prior to SunOS 4 - pcap-nit.c; the last such version, SunOS
> 3.5, was released in January 1988
> SunOS 4.x - pcap-snit.c; the last such version, SunOS 4.1.5, was
> released in November 1994
> HP-UX 9 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; the last such version, 9.10, was
> released in early-to-mid 1995
> HP-UX 10 prior to 10.20 - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the only such
> version, 10.0, was released in 1995
> SINIX - some code in pcap-dlpi.c; - the last release, Reliant UNIX
> 5.45, was released some time in the early 2000s (?)
> IRIX - pcap-snoop.c; - the last update was released some time in the
> mid-to-late 2000s (?)
These are no brainers for me.
> DEC OSF/1^W^WDigital UNIX^WTru64 UNIX - pcap-pf.c; the last release,
> Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-6, was released in October 2010
I think that there is still some Tru64 out there, so let's remove it, but
note that we are open to putting it back.
> We don't have any buildbots doing tests of those platforms, and I don't
> know when the last test of whether libpcap will compile or work on
> those platforms was done.
> However, there may well be people using them - pull request #1203:
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/pull/1203
> was a change to fix libpcap so that it builds on Mac OS X 10.4, the
> last version of which, 10.5.8, was released on August 13, 2009.
> So the questions are:
> 1) Which of these have a significant user base?
I don't think much outside of museums, and they likely are using the
compilers from that era, which are likely not C99.
> 2) Which of them have a user base willing to provide a buildbot so
> that we check for code rot?
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