Re: Legacy non-Linux support

[Gert Doering <gert () greenie muc de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> While we're discussing dropping support for older OSes:
>
> Do we still need to worry about:
>
>       SunOS prior to 4.x NIT?
>
>       SunOS 4.x STREAMS NIT?
>
>       IRIX?
>
>       DEC OSF/1^W^WDigital UNIX^W^WTru64 UNIX?

My take on this on other projects has been "no, because if they really
need it, they can always compile an older version of libFOO, and use that".

(This is also relevant for questions like "can we start using C99 
features, even if SunOS 4 does not have C99 compiler")

The risk in cutting off support for legacy things (Linux 1.x, SunOS 4, etc.)
is that you might need to do a "libpcap.old.1" release in case a security
critical bug is found.


But I certainly can't tell you what to do, just bring in a few cents of
thinking, as someone who maintains "portable" unix stuff, and also loves
running old machines :-)  (so, don't drop support for SunOS 4 in tcpdump)

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert () greenie muc de
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