[2746] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Linux split in infoagents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Jun 29 12:40:55 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: web-agents@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Installing a version of Netscape 4.61 for i386_linux2 is my current
priority for the infoagents locker. As noted in earlier messages to
web-agents, this is the version I believed I was installing, two weeks
ago, but Netscape's bad labelling on their web site actually led me to
install the wrong one. The current version of 4.61 in infoagents is
i386_linux3.
I'm currently trying to figure out the least messy way to split the
platforms in infoagents. My problem is that my predecessors dropped all
Linux things in a single place - all three i386_linux? platforms point to
the same subdirectory tree. I KNOW, though, that some of the things in
there are linux2 only, and a few (like the current version of 4.61 there)
may even be linux3 only. I don't know how to sort them out.
Any information from people who can actually RUN these things is welcome!
Also - I'd like opinions on the need for continued i386_linux1 support. I
assume that right now the Linux infoagents users have mostly linux2 boxes,
a small minority of linux3 boxes, and almost no linux1 boxes. Please let
me know if you believe I have the proportions wrong, and whether we should
continue to keep linux1 around.
It's not a problem to keep the platform alive in infoagents ... but I
suspect that its presence is deceptive: Now that we have trimmed back to
no versions of Netscape before 3.01, I suspect there's very little in
infoagents that actually RUNS under linux1 anymore.
-Todd Belton
