[Debburn-devel] Suggestions

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:55:25AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> (2) Strip out all the cruft related to support for Linux kernel interfaces
> other than the ones in Linux 2.6.

Why drop 2.4?

> (3) Drop support for obscure operating systems, starting with the
> VMS support files.  (All of those ".com" files are VMS build files
> -- there's no way those are going to stay maintained, so remove
> them.)  I think several of the proprietary Unices are clearly not
> worth supporting either.  You might want to just go all-Linux (or
> Linux + *BSD); do you really care about non-free OS support?

We're interested in AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX.

> (4) Phase out libscg altogether in favor of a 'new interface' of
> your own design. A new interface will allow the removal of the "You
> may not" lines, which will become totally irrelevant.  The libscg
> interface is bizarrely Solaris-centric, and also excessively
> old-style-SCSI-centric, because it's a direct emulation of a
> hardware interface.

Does this mean moving to something Linux-centric?

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)