Check OS/2 port into Samba SVN?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Jan 31 17:24:41 GMT 2006


On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:19:03AM -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> There is a port of the Samba server to OS/2, and has been talk here and 
> there of updating it to the current version. I scratch my head a bit why 
> the folks that have made that effort do so in more of a "fork" kind of an 
> effort rather than turning in a patch to the Samba project to allow that OS 
> to be supported by the main source tree just like all of the other OS's you 
> support.
> 
> Thus, I am looking to mediate such a suggestion myself before I suggest it 
> to them. Samba developers... what are your thoughts on adding the OS/2 OS 
> to the main source tree?

What does the patch look like and how clean is it ? That's the deciding
factor for me. If the OS/2 port looks just like another POSIX varient
(or can be made to look like that) then I'm happy. If it's more invasive
than that then I'll be much more cautious.

Jeremy.


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