Hi Ryan, thanks for the response!
> As a person who was very active in APR until about a year ago, I can
> answer this. APR works on any platform that uses POSIX
> without issues.
> It also works on any mainframe from IBM and Windows. There
> used to be a
> bunch of people working on making it work on VAX, and I
> believe that it
> does, but you would need to check. The only one I'm not sure about is
> HP Nonstop. I would bet that it does work, but you probably
> would have to
> build it and check.
>
Yes, I'm not sure how POSIX compliant OSS is on HP NonStop. But, could APR be subsetted? The svn client can't need all the features of APR, especially the tricky features like threads and processes (I could be wrong about this of course, haven't spent much time reading the source yet ;-) ). We ran into some quirks of the NonStop file system that we had to fix in CVS (only being able to write blocks less than a certain size to the file system and a couple others), but CVS just built and ran there pretty easily.
> Just before I left the APR team, I was working on getting the
> test suite
> to the point that a user could run make test, and see very
> easily if APR
> was supported on that platform. To the best of my knowledge,
> that work
> hasn't been finished, but you should get a pretty good idea
> of how much
> work you would have by just running make test on the APR code.
>
Sounds good, I'll give it a shot.
> Ryan
>
>
Cheers,
Craig
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