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Re: Is *anyone* using pkgsrc on IRIX?



On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 06:18:10PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> We received criticism in the past from potential users as we promise
> support for many Operating Systems and depend on libarchive in
> ./bootstrap.sh written in C++. The C++ language is a high entry point
> for 23 supported platforms, especially if half of them are long dead...
> even if we pass the bootstrap stage on more vivid ones, we end up with
> severely broken environment (like stopping on Perl for AIX).

If you want to invent arguments, please get them straight at least.
libarchive doesn't depend on C++.

Joerg


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