Peter,

We look forward to your autoconf patches to the build environment to
support the situations you describe.  This seems like a really good
project for people that use mix and match Linux installations like yours.

Coda is not production software and 4.6.6 infinitely less so than 5.0. But
without actually running it, I don't think you'd be able to tell.

Legacy and backward compatibility will become important for us when we
have more users - not now.

- Peter -


On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 thoth_at_purplefrog.com wrote:

> "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb_at_it.uc3m.es> ,in message <199901192104.WAA01661_at_oboe.it.u
> 	c3m.es>, wrote: 
> 
> > I don't run it on any other platform but my own - this seems to reflect
> > a basic miscomprehension about the way linux works. There aren't "official"
> > distributions.
> 
>   Yes there are.  RedHat 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 are all official
> distributions.  There are also distributions of Slackware, Debian, and SuSE.
> 
> > Some machines were slackware 2.1 many years ago, and the distribution got
> > ported from one machine to another, with parts added in from slackware
> > 3.0-3.4 in particular, and everything works.
> 
>   You said `There aren't "official" distributions.' when you should have said
> `There are distributions which aren't official'.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
>            http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
>