Subj : Waffle
To   : bcw142
From : Oli
Date : Fri Feb 18 2022 08:58 am

bcw142 wrote (2022-02-16):

 b> On 04 Jan 2022, Oli said the following...

 Ol>> Linux wasn't very common 30 years ago, was it? ;)

 b> Not common, but I started with it before then and had a number of systems
 b> running Slackware by 1991 (so 31 years ago). We did have to make and
 b> compile our custom kernels and the whole OS back then. That started to go
 b> out with 2.0 and mod's and by 2.5 or so you didn't need to compile a
 b> custom kernel each time. I stopped doing so some time in the early
 b> 2000's. There are likely plenty of old versions on servers around the
 b> world you could start the project of upgrading to a modern Linux on. You
 b> might be able to go in 5 year jumps (the project of upgrading Waffle to
 b> current stuff). I did run Waffle back in the day as did Avon when we used
 b> our real names ;)

I really don't have much experience with C, how it evolved over the years and cross-platform development. But I wonder if it might be more work to port Waffle to several older versions instead of jumping directly to proper ANSI C99 (or whatever works best).

Or start to get in running on a recent BSD first and then port to Linux.

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