Irie Pascal 3.0: Operating systems supported.
April 16th, 2008 by 
stuart
This is the second in a series of very short posts giving a preview of what is planned for Irie Pascal 3.0 (the next major release of Irie Pascal). This post’s reveals which operating systems will be supported.
The dominance of Windows on the desktop made it an easy choice as the operating system to support for developing web applications. The only question was which versions of Windows to support. The plan is to support the three latest desktop versions, Vista, XP, and 2000.
The choice of the operating system to support for deploying the web applications, once they are built was more difficult, and came down to the following:
- Windows Server (2003 and 2008)
- Linux (Red Hat Enterprise)
- FreeBSD
The decision that Apache will be the only supported web server pretty much eliminated Windows, so the choice was then between Linux and FreeBSD. Right now the plan is to support only Linux (probably only Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5).
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April 27th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Does this means that there is no further support for Solaris (Sparc/X86)?
April 27th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Further support for Solaris?
OK, let me clarify a few things about support for Solaris in the future.
1. Solaris (both Sparc and x86) is still supported for customers using Irie Pascal 2.6, and I have no plans to stop supporting Solaris on that version of Irie Pascal.
2. When Irie Pascal 3.0 is released, I will not be supporting customers using that version on Solaris. However it is very likely (almost certain) that I will be releasing the source code for the run-time engine, and I would be very happy if someone decided to compile the run-time engine on Solaris (or any other platform). As a result, you will probably still be able to run Irie Pascal programs on Solaris.
3. I am also not ruling out the possibility of providing support for Solaris at a later date or in a later version of Irie Pascal. I am just deciding to narrow my focus right now, and expand as demand grows.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:48 am
That sounds good. Looking forward for Irie Pascal 3.0.