From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 02:11:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA21235 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from isbalham (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA21225 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA08004; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:07:43 GMT Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:06:54 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:10:02 +0000 To: "Lenzi, Sergio" From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Subject: Re: Quality of BSD software Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:26 am 19/3/96, Lenzi, Sergio wrote: >Hello all. > >In an answer from a request for information about Win/U here is what >they sad: > >> >> Thank you for your interest in Wind/U, which enables you to take >> your Windows applications to multiple Unix and VMS platforms >> with only a single source required. >> >> We do not support Linux or FreeBSD, primarily due to the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> quality of the compilers that work with these operating systems. >[...] Probably their code is a mess and when they try to build it under gcc they get heaps of errors/warnings which they can't be bothered to fix. Sad is about right. -- Bob Bishop (01734) 774017 international code +44 1734 rb@gid.co.uk fax (01734) 894254 between 0800 and 1800 UK