RE: [cdt-dev] Re: Eclipse CDT Bug "Make" sometimes doesn't start in Win

[Douglas Schaefer <dschaefe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Windows NT, 98, and ME are listed as secondary platforms for Eclipse 2.1 
and are just lightly tested. They also are not listed in the Eclipse 3.0 
plan so, yes, they could disappear soon as well.

Knowing the difficulty in getting processes to start on the Windows 95 
based platforms (or even worse, stop!), I would also vote unsupported, at 
least from our crew.  If anyone wants to take a stab at getting this 
running on both Win 2K/XP and Win 98/ME (i.e. without creating a new 
feature) and submit a patch, I'm sure we would consider it.

Cheers,
Doug Schaefer, Senior Software Developer
IBM Rational Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada



Thomas Fletcher <ThomasF@xxxxxxx> 
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My vote is to make Windows 98 unsupported.  NT support is deprecated,
it won't be long until Windows 98 is too.

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Magloire [mailto:alain@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: September 3, 2003 3:14 PM
> To: owe@xxxxxx
> Cc: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Re: Eclipse CDT Bug "Make" sometimes 
> doesn't start in
> Win98
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hello Alain!
> > 
> 
> Bonjour,
> 
> >   I searched for a bug in CDT in Win98, i have the same problems
> >   described in bugreport
> >   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36688 from List
> > 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&order
=map_assigned_to.login_name,bugs.bug_id,
>   i have visited this page frequently but finally nothing changes for
>   a couple of months. Do you know if there is a perspective for
>   Win98 users?


Good question, I will put this to the cdt-dev mailing list(CC: to the
mailing list).

                 is Win98 a supported platform ?


The problem, java.lang.Process is limited:

- On windows with the jdk-1.3.x
 * everytime java.lang.Process is executed a dos terminal appears, very
annoying.
 * java.lang.Process does not have IPC, like signal. This needed by the
debugger
   to suspend a running process.

- Solution was to provide a JNI glue, libspawner.so, feature:
 * the debugger could use it to send a signal to suspend an appliction
(SIGINT).
 * suppress the dos terminal.
 * use also for other dependent stuff like getting the PID list etc ..

- caveat
 * Win98 API is different then the rest of WinXXX
 So spawner is not working properly on this platform. 

- Possible solutions
 * make Win98 unsupported.
 * fallback to java.lang.Process for this platform with the problems
enumerate above.

Feedback please, would like resolve this for 1.2


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