[PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed 
to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You 
know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I 
would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Andreas Ericsson]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed 
> to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You 
> know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I 
> would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)
> 

http://www.testdrive.hp.com/

You can sign up for a free account there and get (telnet and ftp) access 
to all sorts of wonky and fun systems.

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Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Adrien Beau]

On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed
> to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You
> know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I
> would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)

You can get free VMS accounts at the Deathrow Cluster:
http://deathrow.vistech.net/

If you're serious about using your account, you'll find that the admin
team is pretty supportive and friendly.

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Tim O'Callaghan]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed
> > to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You
> > know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I
> > would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)
> 
> You can get free VMS accounts at the Deathrow Cluster:
> http://deathrow.vistech.net/
> 
> If you're serious about using your account, you'll find that the admin
> team is pretty supportive and friendly.

You should check out polarhome.com if you want a variety of platforms
to muck about on, including IRIX, Plan 9, OpenVMS Vax, OpenVMS Alpha
etc.

I work on VMS systems at the moment and i thought of attempting to
port git for the hell of it. I decided not to bother for a variety of
reasons, but mostly because it looked like too much work :)  

Tim.

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote:
> > On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed
> > > to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You
> > > know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I
> > > would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)
> > 
> > You can get free VMS accounts at the Deathrow Cluster:
> > http://deathrow.vistech.net/
> > 
> > If you're serious about using your account, you'll find that the admin
> > team is pretty supportive and friendly.
> 
> You should check out polarhome.com if you want a variety of platforms
> to muck about on, including IRIX, Plan 9, OpenVMS Vax, OpenVMS Alpha
> etc.
> 
> I work on VMS systems at the moment and i thought of attempting to
> port git for the hell of it. I decided not to bother for a variety of
> reasons, but mostly because it looked like too much work :)  

Well, I did not remember that VMS does not have a proper fork() call. So 
maybe it would be easier to port git to MinGW32 first...

BTW, my remark about VMS was more tongue-in-cheek than not...

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

[Andreas Ericsson]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote:
>>
>>>On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed
>>>>to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You
>>>>know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I
>>>>would try to get git to work on it, too ;-)
>>>
>>>You can get free VMS accounts at the Deathrow Cluster:
>>>http://deathrow.vistech.net/
>>>
>>>If you're serious about using your account, you'll find that the admin
>>>team is pretty supportive and friendly.
>>
>>You should check out polarhome.com if you want a variety of platforms
>>to muck about on, including IRIX, Plan 9, OpenVMS Vax, OpenVMS Alpha
>>etc.
>>
>>I work on VMS systems at the moment and i thought of attempting to
>>port git for the hell of it. I decided not to bother for a variety of
>>reasons, but mostly because it looked like too much work :)  
> 
> 
> Well, I did not remember that VMS does not have a proper fork() call.

It doesn't. It's got vfork() though.


> BTW, my remark about VMS was more tongue-in-cheek than not...
> 

Thanks anyway. I would never have gotten that link to polarhome if you'd 
kept your tongue straight.


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