art@dinorah.wustl.edu (Arthur B. Smith) (12/08/89)
Greetings netlanders!
Pardon the extreme cross posting! We are working on a large
software project (ca. 20+ person-years). It has been developed thus
far in C to run on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix (BSD derived)
using X11R3 (but not DECwindows). It is a multi-process system, with
It has become apparent that we will need to have this system
running on a Silicon Graphics 4d series box running IRIX (System V
derived), and a scaled down version of this system on some 80386 or
80486 based "PC" running Xenix or some other *ix. These will probably
all be developed in parallel (common source, using #ifdef's and the
like where necessary).
Unfortunately, all of us are raw novices at this cross-system
portability issue, and we collectively have very little experience on
non-BSD derived Unixen.
What I am looking for, therefore, is any wisdom on what is going
to be necessary. I am looking for any of:
* How much more time (than just developing under Ultrix) will this
take?
* Should some people develop and others port, or should we all
learn to write portable code by porting what we write.
* Any recommendations for a 386/486 box and/or operating system?
* Any major pitfalls to avoid? If we can learn from other's
mistakes, that would be wonderful!
* Any problems with using BSD sockets? X Windows? File system
issues? Something else?
* Any techniques that you have found helpful in doing this type of
thing?
Please respond by e-mail to art@dinorah.wustl.edu or
...!uunet!wucs1!dinorah!art (I can't possibly find time to follow ALL
these groups! 8^). If you are interested in a summary of the
responses, please indicate that, and what newsgroup you would like to
see it in if there are a lot of requests. I will summarize in one
form or another to all who ask.
Thanks in advance!
-art smith
(art@dinorah.wustl.edu or ...!uunet!wucs1!dinorah!art)
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