porting strategy

[dave....@gmail.com]

Folks,

I'm curious as to what the general thought is in terms of ports --
that is what is the preferred approach to dealing with multiple OS's
for Strongtalk. A review of the mailing list would seem to indicate
that the OS's of interest are MacOS, Linux, Solaris, and MS; did I
miss any?

I see four primary areas of concern --

1. toolsets: that is, VisualStudio v. GCC v. MingW.
2. Windowing Environments -- MS v. X (GTK would be my vote) v. MAC
3. Operating Systems MS v. *nix (and potentially BSD vs SysV) I'll
go with the working assumption that MacOS X+ is the target there, so
the BSD v. SysV covers that.
4. Image files

I ask because I'm attempting to suss out the best way to approach a
linux port and I'm hoping that others have already thought through
this one -- I'm bear of very little brain.

regards,
(The other) Dave.

[Thiago Silva]

Hello Dave (the other),

Just to complement, have you read the issues page of the project?
http://code.google.com/p/strongtalk/issues/list

--
Thiago Silva
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[dave....@gmail.com]

Thiago,

Yes I had, and while I noted a number of porting "issues", no
specifics were listed. I'll try to post a proposal of different
approaches tomorrow. My concern is coordinating efforts between MacOS
and Linux/Solaris ports vs the base Windows codebase.

-- (The other) Dave

On Feb 8, 6:15 pm, "Thiago Silva" <tegue....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Dave (the other),
>
> Just to complement, have you read the issues page of the project?http://code.google.com/p/strongtalk/issues/list
>

[Thiago Silva]

On 2/8/07, dave....@gmail.com <dave....@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> Thiago,
>
> Yes I had, and while I noted a number of porting "issues", no
> specifics were listed. I'll try to post a proposal of different
> approaches tomorrow. My concern is coordinating efforts between MacOS
> and Linux/Solaris ports vs the base Windows codebase.

As I recall, Carlo Dapor was working with a MacOS port, and I guess
there were others interested a few months back. We were trying to
coordinate our work but I went on vacation and, currently, I'm unaware
of his progress. He was working with GCC as well.

Not sure if there is any other effort on porting.