Samba4 portability

[Randy Turner]

Hello list,

I had a high-level question regarding the technical goals of the  
samba4 project. In the past, my projects have included embedded  
system projects that needed CIFS/SMB client/server functionality.  
Sometimes these projects were embedded linux, and it wasn't too  
difficult to get Samba 3.0.x running on these platforms. However,  
when these embedded platforms used some other real-time operating  
system (like VxWorks), the design of Samba 3.0.x and it's OS  
assumptions made the task of porting Samba 3.0.x extremely difficult,  
and was not attempted.

What I was hoping is that the design Samba4 was modularized and not  
as monolithic as Samba3, and that the interfaces used by Samba4 were  
not "hard-wired" to a Unix system API. I just pulled down the current  
trunk of the samba4 tree and I'm just starting to look at it, but I  
was hoping for a basic statement as to whether or not the list feels  
like the portability of the samba4 codebase is much better than Samba3.

Thanks in advance for any responses!
Randy