From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 12 19:01:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA17887 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (slip-33.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA17874 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA10850; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:00:52 -0400 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:00:52 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Purify/Insure++ In-Reply-To: <16444.884657720@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Anyone know of something similar to the above that works under FreeBSD? > > Or, hell, even under the Linux emulation? :( > > We all wish. Keep asking Pure/Atria software for that FreeBSD port, > folks, and maybe they'll eventually see a market and do one! ;) I guess this begs the question as to what they would consider a large enough market in order to do the port? Same for pretty much any commercial port, how many ppl would have to commit to purchasing a copy to make it viable for them? The response I got from the Insure++/Parasoft ppl was: "There is no one that supports free bsd. There is no automatic error detection tool available on that platform and I don't believe there ever will be. There is just no market for it and those that have it expect to pay close to nothing for it." The "perception" appears to be that because we haven't gone out and paid for our operating system, we aren't willing to spend money on quality productivity software to compliment things...:( Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org