[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 and BSDI 4.X

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>wrote:

> The Doctor put forth on 8/20/2010 9:24 PM:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:22:09PM +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:37 -0600, The Doctor wrote:
> >>> Aug 18 23:25:31 doctor dovecot: log: Error: net_accept() failed:
> Invalid argument
> >>
> >> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/565f18727209 fixes this?
>
> Wind River discontinued BSD/OS (BSDi) in 2003, 7 years ago.  This version
> of
> BSDi "The Doctor" is running thus hasn't seen a patch for _at least_ 7
> years.
>  Seven year old gcc environment?  No wonder things don't work.
>
> Is there any real legitimate reason either of you are wasting your time
> with
> trying to make Dovecot work on a 7+ year old _DEAD_ operating system?
>
> Why haven't you moved this box up to the latest version of FreeBSD or
> OpenBSD?
>

Looks like even I woke up my FreeBSD 4.0 today, Timo would be willing to
help me make Dovecot 2.0 run on it.

I think it's something to do with these hard core programmers. They never
see failure as an option!

This BSD/OS fellow really need to run something else. 7 year old OS - it's
like running Windows (spit!) 95 in 2010.


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