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Wojtek wrote:
> It they are not big, and if so many V4 ports exist, then why are you
> saying now that things are difficult? From the depths of my ignorance it
> seems to me, that most of hard work has already been done, such as 
> porting the compiler and OS-specific bindings. I would think that this
> work can be reused. Existing ports can be used as "launching pads"
> to bootstrap new ones, or am I missing something here?

No, you are correct, doing the port for most existing platforms should not
be too difficult, since the compilers and the operating/windowing-systems
exist. That's why I emphasized the support in my post. You probably know
there are S3 versions for Suns and Linux but until now nobody has updated
them from release 1.5 to release 2.0. Even if it only means collecting,
compiling, and testing all modules, building a release is still a piece of
work. It's never as easy as it should be, and fixing "little" bugs is very
annoying and time consuming.

The problem will get harder as soon as there will be more releases supporting
OMI because OMI support requires changing the existing compilers and
loaders, invalidating your argument that everything is already there and just
needs to be compiled.

Erich Oswald
Institute for Computer Systems
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
oswald@inf.ethz.ch