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

[Chris Songer <songer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are certainly not supporting Win98, or WinME in our announced Eclipse 
based products.

At 03:17 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> 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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