[fpc-pascal] Re: 2.6.0 for Solaris?

[microcode at zoho.com]

On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:07:47 +0200 (CEST) "Tomas Hajny" wrote:

> On Thu, May 10, 2012 13:22, microcode wrote:

> > Sun makes awfully nice boxes and Solaris is a very nice development
> > platform. I hope the guys will keep FPC going on Solaris. There are
> > many Solaris 10 on Sun fans.

>
> FPC support of individual platforms depends on availability of volunteers
> interested and capable of supporting these platforms. FPC can target
> really many platforms nowadays, but this increasing number cannot be
> supported with constant number of developers. Someone from the Sun fans
> has to step in, otherwise the support cannot be guaranteed in the long
> term. 

Yeah, that's obvious. I'm sure anybody who was capable would help. All I
can offer at this point is development systems but that doesn't seem to be
the problem. How much platform dependent code is there? I would think if
the main product works on i386 or AMD64 for example then there isn't much
to do except build on the other targets? 

Is it a matter of not having developers for the specific platform or not
having anybody to build it for a specific platform?