FreeBSD, Windows, etc.

Roger Bowler

Jan 15, 2000

A couple of people have in the past expressed interest in running
Hercules on other platforms, such as FreeBSD, Windows95/NT,
or whatever.

In retrospect the replies I gave may have seemed somewhat
dismissive, if so my apologies. After reconsideration, I've decided
this will be my position on porting to other platforms:

"If you want to make Hercules run on Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris,
Linux 2.0.x, or whatever, then by all means go ahead. I welcome
reports of any bugs or problems you find, but I probably won't fix
problems if it means introducing platform-specific code, and I
will not be able to test new releases against other platforms."

The Hercules code is not intended to be specific to Intel hardware,
so if anyone finds any issues or faults related to running on other
hardware (Sparc, Alpha, PPC, ...) under Linux 2.2, then I'm likely
to be more receptive to fixing that sort of problem than issues
related to Unix variants. I'm certainly not trying to promote Linux
as the be-all and end-all of everything (there are plenty of people
doing that at the moment), I just think it happens to be a suitable
platform for this particular application.

Regards, Roger Bowler.

11:34 pm