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oswald@inf.ethz.ch wrote:

> 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.

This is the point i really don't understad. AFAIK, the linux port was a spare
time project of two ETH students. Were theire experiences so bad that they
didn't want to do the r2.0 port or that they can't recommend other people doing
that? ( Marcus and Marc, are you listening?) And why is this port not available
on the official ETH ftp site? The V4 port from the same project is there. To me
it seems that there is some non technical thing behind, perhaps we all don't
know what.

> 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.
 
And i thought that OMI would solve this problem! Having the compiler you would
only need the new loader and the inner core of existing versions to run the
system and wouldn't need to support Gadgets and others. 

Peter