Re: @sys variable name
"Christopher D. Clausen" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.devel.win32 |
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On Monday, April 05, 2004 9:58a <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> >> In Feb 2004, IBM dropped support for Windows NT4 systems. >> As such they renamed the sysname from "i386_nt40" to "i386_win2k" as >> documented at: >> >> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/stormgmt/afs/manuals/Library/patch.readme.htm#HDRWINDOWS_PRODUCT_NOTES >> >> What is the opinion of the community regarding this change? > > Does OpenAFS-1.3.6x run on NT any more? If not go with the new name > too. Well, i386_win2k doesn't really cover WindowsXP or Windows 2003 server. I don't really care as long as binaries will run on all suported platforms as I do have non-AFS software under the sysnames for various OSes / processor combinations. I do think that i386_nt50 would be a better sysname, but if IBM already picked one OpenAFS should probably just use it. Perhaps now might also be a good time to have seperate sysnames for 64-bit Windows? <<CDC Christopher D. Clausen ACM@UIUC SysAdmin