Re: [Bug-wget] Support of non-linux OS's going down the drain?

[Micah Cowan]

On 08/19/2011 12:18 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> With HP-UX 11.00 and HP C-ANSI-C it doesn't even *compile* anymore!

(Re "Support of non-linux OS's going down the drain?")

If folks would like to see better support for non-GNU/Linux platforms, 
then folks using those platforms might do well to help test the software 
when test tarballs are released. There is one primary developer, and a 
smattering of sporadic contributors, and every time a release is made, 
the maintainer is always dismayed to find that all of a sudden people 
find all their particular platform bugs at that time.

No one ever seems to pay much attention to the test packages that people 
make available, sometimes several months in advance, and the maintainer 
surely lacks the resources to test on many different platforms 
(particularly ones that don't lend themselves well to being run under a 
VM), so I'm afraid there's little that can be done about the problem. It 
wouldn't be appropriate to announce test source packages to as wide an 
audience as we do for full releases, and obviously the maintainer's own 
development platform (and whatever's most widely used among the mailing 
list users) will get the best treatment.

(Not trying to criticize anyone or anything, just trying to make the 
point that the "favored" status of one particular OS is more or less 
inevitable.)

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Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/