Re: OS/2 support thread in mozilla.dev.platform
Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Aug 2017 23:04:19 -0700
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On 7/30/17 10:44 PM, Dave Yeo wrote: > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: >> Unless you port Rust you can forget new releases anyway. > > It's hard to imagine Rust getting ported, sounds hard enough for systems > already supporting LLVM. I pretty much abandoned that effort for TenFourFox; recent LLVM doesn't even work on Tiger OS X, and Rust needs thread-local storage on top of that. At this point it's consisting of keeping 45 alive with backported security and some feature patches. That might be what has to be done for the OS/2 version, except you could do it with ESR52, potentially. Cameron Kaiser 3-tiers for May, see Emily play