From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oldp.nmsu.edu ([128.123.26.31]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24631>; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:16:08 -0500 Received: by oldp.nmsu.edu; id AA30380; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:15:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:15:49 -0500 From: Alan Watson Message-Id: <9703061715.AA30380@oldp.nmsu.edu> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: RC => POSIX Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Agreed, "all the old BSD and SysV systems" would fall behind. > [...] > > [...] > There's a lot of old iron out there doing useful work. Ask Byron, I'm > sure he had a lot of mail from folks with strange incompatibilities. Lets stop and look at where we are. The behaviour of rc is, for all intents and purposes, fixed. We are talking about rc-1.5 not because we want new features or want bugs fixed, but because we want rc-1.4 to work on new iron. Presumably, those people with old iron can continue to run rc-1.4. Making rc-1.5 run on just POSIX systems would make it significantly easier to maintain. Given the resources that are available, this is a very worthy goal. (On a related note, separating rc from readline would make it significantly easier to maintain, but lets not get into that one again.) Alan