Re: strsignal module

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> It's a moving target, but it can be defined roughly like this:
>   - All platforms with a Unix like API, that are not older than ca. 6 years.
>     This leads approximately to this list:
>       glibc >= 2.1, MacOS X >= 10.2, FreeBSD >= 4.8, NetBSD >= 3.0,
>       OpenBSD >= 3.4, AIX >= 4.3.2, HP-UX >= 11.00, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 >= 5.1,
>       Solaris >= 9, Cygwin, Interix.
>   - mingw, where possible without too big hacks.

I tend to be a bit more conservative, and say that we support it as
long as the original supplier does (but not much longer).  For
example, Solaris 8 last shipped on 2007-02-16 and so it's still very
much alive; Sun's phase 1 (bug-fixing) end date is not until
2009-03-31.  I still install and run GNU software on Solaris 8
machines on a regular basis.