Re: Status of the native Windows client

Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:07:25 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.devel.win32
Organization	Secure Endpoints Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Peter Hallberg wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I would like to know the latest news on the native Windows client and speficically if it has been ported to Visual Studio 2008, before one needed VS 2005 to build it but that version is not for sale anymore.

Visual Studio 2005 is still available with an MSDN license.  As far as I
am aware the 1.5.6x code base does build with Visual Studio 2008.
Visual Studio 2005 is used for all OpenAFS builds because Visual Studio
2008 is incompatible with the SDKs necessary to support Windows 2000.

Although significant work has been performed on the native client since
March, none of the new code is available in the repository.  The code in
the repository has some architectural flaws that required a nearly
complete rewrite.

Jeffrey Altman