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Tariq

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Jul 11, 2002, 11:28:53 AM7/11/02
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hi - i was wondering what people thought would be a suitable distro
for developing software.

the aim is to make sure that the resulting software is most easily
ported to not just other distros, but also other BSD and possibly
win32/cygwin?

for example, i note that the newer glibc has the stlcpy and not all
distros will have this, if at all. on the other hand i don't want to
use a distro so old and esoteric that the "methods" are also not
current. for (a bad) example, image an old distro with no ssh or
pam... thats what i would consider unreasonble.

how LSB and LFS compliant are the distros? should i wait for something
like a United Linux? i'd say there is a niche left in the market for a
distro aimed at devlopers to develop and test against.

my current guess would be the conservative debian 3.0? slackware?

i use mandrake for my day-to-day personal computing.

tariq

Peter T. Breuer

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Jul 11, 2002, 5:23:46 PM7/11/02
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Tariq <tariq_...@lineone.net> wrote:
> hi - i was wondering what people thought would be a suitable distro
> for developing software.

Use the distro you are intending to develop software FOR.

Or were you going to give it to them ithout trying it out on
their paltform?

> the aim is to make sure that the resulting software is most easily
> ported to not just other distros, but also other BSD and possibly
> win32/cygwin?

In that case you will have to run all those systems. Porting is made
easier by writing generic code, not code particular to any particular
environment!

Peter

Joel Mayes

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Jul 11, 2002, 7:06:54 PM7/11/02
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In a moment of clarity Tariq had the following epiphany

> hi - i was wondering what people thought would be a
> suitable distro for developing software.
>

<snip>

Any of them, look at all the packages that run not only on
99% of linux distros but on pretty much any *nix system
some of these are quite small and simple packages too,
mutt, fetchmail, procmail, slrn etc. etc.

It's not that hard to write software that portable between
platforms, writing something that portable between Linux
distros is a breeze.

Cheers

Joel
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John Hasler

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Jul 11, 2002, 7:11:19 PM7/11/02
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tariq writes:
> i'd say there is a niche left in the market for a distro aimed at
> devlopers to develop and test against.

It exists. We call it Debian.
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John Hasler
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