SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix?

[J.T. Conklin]

In article <1313 at polari.UUCP> corwin at polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:
>No, BUT what has just happened indicates that this might be the case.  In
>november I was told by a tech support rep that there would be an upgrade
>to the development system "in the first quarter of 90", this upgrade was  
>supposed to have brought the xenix compiler up to the equivalent of the
>MicroSnot 5.1 compiler.  Today I was told there will be no upgrade for the
>xenix development system, if I want to upgrade I have to go to Unix (and
>as a result pay through the nose for the upgrade).

I hope this is not true -- First no NFS and then no DS upgrade
for XENIX.  This ties my hands as a developer, and I can't afford
to orphan XENIX just like that.

I would like to store the source code repository on a central 
NFS fileserver and compile the code on the host for which it is
targeted.

Cross compilation is an option, but would be a real pain for 
device driver work.  This will really slow down the edit-compile-
link-test cycle.

Perhaps I should go on sabbatical, licence, port and distribute
a NFS for XENIX; then and spend some time cleaning up the GNU C
compiler.

	--jtc






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