[Mailman-Developers] An NT Mailman version

[Tom Funk]

Dan:

Thanks for getting back to me.

Do you, or anyone else on this list, know of any attempts to recompile the
core C source files using the Cygnus' cygwin product?  One of the design
goals of cygwin was to mimic fork(),  spawn family of functions that are
missing from the Win32 API.

Dan said:
>> will be in troubles with locking and forking...
>> ...But if You wont use included archiving

Is the locking and forking code only the archiving parts of the code?  Or is
it spread throughout the source?  Has anyone considered porting the forking
code to Python threads?  I've not worked with them, but the impression I get
is that for the O/S's that support them, they tend to be pretty
non-os-specific.  'Course I may be wrong on this....

I'd consider working on an NT port.  It's a *great* way to learn all kinds
of things about a software package - and the implementation language.  I'd
just like to not start from scratch if at all possible.

One last thing: is there a CVS tree in place for the Mailman source?  I
downloaded the source for Mailman, but don't recall seeing anything about
revision/source code control.

I seem to recall some discussion at the Starship Python site
(http://starship.python.net) about hosting CVS trees for Python-based source
code.  If there isn't a CVS tree (or SCCS or RCS) then this might be an
option.

Just my $.02.

-=< tom >=-




-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Ohnesorg [mailto:dan@feld.cvut.cz]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 4:57 PM
To: Tom Funk
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] An NT Mailman version


On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Tom Funk wrote:

> 
> Is there a Windows NT version of Mailman in our future?  I checked the
> archives and didn't see anything about this (hope I didn't miss it....
:-).
> 
> 
> Since Mailman is written in Python, and there are only six C programs, all
> of which look *fairly* non-*nix specific, a port doesn't seem too
> far-fetched.  
> 
> Any thoughts?


I think You will be in troubles with locking and forking code in mailman
under NT. But if You wont use included archiving, it will probably run
good.

cheers
dan