8 Jan
2015
8 Jan
'15
4:22 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Andrzej Popielewicz <
andrzejpopielewicz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
version
distribution
> On Tue,
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan(a)kerpan.com
wrote:
> > This is a cool development. Does this code build into a working > > of Coherent or is this mainly useful to
study? Either way, it should
be
> > interesting to look at the code for a clone
specifically aimed at
low-end
> > hardware.
>
> Unknown (to me, anyway). Steve said he had intended to organize and
> catalog the code at some point, but that he hasn't gotten around to it
(and
> not to hold one's breath). I gathered that
the tar ball he provided is
a
> snapshot of (a subset of?) the MWC development
disks at the time he was
> asked to create the archive. To that end, I suspect that if one were
> sufficiently motivated one *could* use it to build a distribution of
> COHERENT, but I suspect you'd have to know quite a bit about their
internal
> development practices and release processes to do
so successfully;
> knowledge that may very well have been lost over time. Perhaps some
> motivated person will be able to reverse engineer it, though I suspect
it's
more useful as
a case study than as working code.
Hi Dan,
What to You mean by building distribution. The archive contains original
of Coherent 4.2.10. Or You mean one could build quite
new distribution ?
I mean, which would work on modern hardware ?
To a first order approximation, I meant regenerating the installation media
from source.
You would certainly know more than I would about it; if you say it can be
done, I believe you. :-) I don't know how to go about it, though (I
assume it involves typing more than one command, but I could well be wrong).
- Dan C.