bertrand@hub.ucsb.edu (Bertrand Meyer) (01/17/89)
From <637@usl.usl.edu>, drm@usl.usl.edu (Dennis Moreau): > > Is there any mechanism to allow universities to conduct ports of > eiffel to new environments (e.g. IBM AIX (3090), Xenix (PS2), > MACH (neXt)...). I will be teaching software engineering in these > system environments in coming semesters and would really like to > use eiffel for academic and research activities. We support AIX and Xenix directly so there is no need for a specific port. For NeXT (I hope I got the upper-case letters right) nothing has been done so far. (The interest of porting Eiffel there was mentioned by an earlier contributor to this newsgroup.) For environments that we do not (or do not yet) directly support, arrangements can be made to have a customer, industrial or academic, do the port. We require a serious guarantee of non-disclosure and the provision that we will receive a copy of the result of the port. This arrangement has been used a number of times to make Eiffel available to users having machines that are somewhat off the beaten track. As long as the target is a reasonable Unix, the technical work involved is not hard. -- Bertrand Meyer Interactive Software Engineering bertrand@eiffel.com