[Mailman-Developers] New to Mailman, Question on Platforms

[Mark Williamson]

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:
>>
>> >>>>> "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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