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Re: [platform-update-dev] Help wanted ...
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David, thank you for the offer [sorry if you are getting this twice, I
wanted to make sure you get this and was not certain if you subscribe to
the mailing list ... in the future I will only post the mailing list].
I am going to show my ignorance of native things in general, and Linux
native things in particular, by admitting in a very public forum that I do
not know the answer to your question (after all, this is why we are asking
for help). What I would ideally like to end up with, is a single native
implementation for each of the platforms that would work "out of the box"
on all the "variants" of each OS without the need to upgrade the base OS
support or install some additional support. On Linux, this would mean
working against some common set of library calls that are supported "out
of the box" in the runtime libraries provided on both targeted
distributions (SuSE 7.3, the RH version that will be supported by Eclipse
will likely end up being RH7.1 or later, rather than 7.2 as stated in my
original note).
I do not know if this is possible. If not (eg. if we want to exploit some
particular support not available everywhere) we could handle this, but
would require multiple native library builds, and Eclipse started with
command-line options identifying the specific runtime environment (-os/
-arch flags).
So are the libraries required to implement the interface we sketched out
available in both the RH and SuSE distributions "out of the box" and is it
possible to end up with one implementation that handles both environments
[sorry for turning the question around but we'll have to work out the
answer based on what is possible].
> I would be happy to help. I can cover Linux. I have Redhat,
> Suse and Debian available. More important however than particular
> distributions, is library requirements.
> Regards
> David
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