Re: Mozilla for OS 9

> In article <[email protected]>,
>  "Adilson Soares Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks very much for your answer.
>>
>>But why there's a version of the lastest build of mozilla for other
>>operating systems like AIX, Irix, OS/2...?
>>
>>Wow, who uses OS/2????????
>>
>>There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-)

the problem is that to support codeWarrier every mozilla developer
that made any changes to the tree structure ( add/move/remove files
or options) had to either have a Mac with CW7 on it or find some Mac 
developer that did so that the CW7 build control files could be updated

this was a constant problem and only got worse once most of the Mac 
developers started moving to MacOSX and gcc to build

early on in teh mozilla development process Mac/Windowsand Unix each
had seperate build files (Makefiles on win32 and *ix and CW7 project 
fiels on Mac) even before OSX appeared the build follks had mad the 
win32 programmers switch to share common Makefiles with *ix. once that 
happened only MacCW7 had an unique build system, but it was all that
CW7 supported, when OSX appeared with it's *ix based compilers and buld 
tools the Mac joined all the other OSs and used the common makefiles

some time later support for CW7 was dropped and a couple of months after 
that all the CW7 control files were removed from the tree ( they were
so outdated that they couldn't build the tree anyway

dave