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Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mint
Subject Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader
Date 2026-05-03 18:23 +0000
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On Sun, 3 May 2026 06:09:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

> Time was, the (1) method, some developers would #ifdef their source,
> so that their package could be custom-built to run on *12* platforms.
> I used to look at this, and conclude "are these poor people INSANE?",
> because when you slash up your source and make a mess of it, it's a
> maintenance headache. The people who went to that much trouble to ensure
> their software "ran on S390", were some kind of heroes.

You do what you have to do. There hadn't been an AIX build in a decade but 
the Makefiles and source files still had ifdef for AIX, Linux, and WinNT. 
On a more granular level files dealing with the database had DB2, SQL 
Server, and Oracle ifdefs. Even worse for a while the Windows versions had 
to differentiate between SQL Server 2008 and the later versions.

It used to be fun to watch ./configure trying to figure out what it had to 
work with.

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Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 09:00 +0000
  Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-04-30 12:21 +0200
  Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-30 17:56 +0000
    Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 12:13 -0700
      Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 23:37 +0000
        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 17:35 -0700
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-04-30 18:51 -0700
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 03:45 +0000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-01 08:22 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-01 10:05 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-02 11:21 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-02 15:15 -0400
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-03 05:18 +0000
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-03 05:20 -0400
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-01 11:25 -0400
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-01 11:20 -0400
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-03 12:48 +1000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-03 06:09 -0400
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-03 18:23 +0000
              Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 09:10 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-03 18:12 +0000
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 12:11 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 11:24 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-05 15:46 -0400
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 13:40 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-05 13:43 -0700
                Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-06 07:35 +0000
        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 01:29 +0000
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 23:54 +0000
            Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-02 00:16 +0000
    Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-04-30 23:23 +0000
      Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 01:38 +0000
        Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-01 03:33 +0000
          Re: Let's do a an AppImage of Pan Newsreader rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-01 04:36 +0000

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