i.e. not worth the effort :) hehehe, always knew i'd put this redhat disk to use

-----Original Message----- From: John Viega <John@list.org> To: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us>; Mark Williamson <markw98@ibm.net> Cc: mailman-developers@python.org <mailman-developers@python.org> Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] New to Mailman, Question on Platforms

I mostly agree with Barry's answer, but for different reasons. You can use the cygwin stuff to get fork(), etc... under windows. There is no reasonable *free* mail transport for windows that I know of, but you could always pass that off to another machine, with some hacking. I don't know what web servers look like for windows. All in all, the pieces are probably all there, but there would be a lot of work involved in getting everything working.

John

On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 02:10:04PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

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> "MW" == Mark Williamson <markw98@ibm.net> writes:

At this point, I think it's mostly undoable because of our heavy reliance on a forking model. Win32 doesn't have fork().

We've talked about moving to a threaded long-running server model, or adopting Zope <www.zope.org> as a platform, and both of those (very future) developments would probably let us support NT.

-Barry

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