Hi,
FourthWorld wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:27 pm
I don't know about your C++ skill
Not existent :)
FourthWorld wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:27 pm
Might we put together a bounty on this?
Tbh, no, sorry. No incentive for me - after all I don't need Server 9: There's nothing in it that I really need as long as Server 8 works. If it shows that LC server makes sense for me, at all.
And I'm absolutely unhappy with the direction RunRev takes with the new versions, and with their new way of delivering their products - I don't want to support this.
I'm grateful for LC 6.7.10 Community; this is a great product IMHO, so I try to "pay back" in doing my best being helpful in the forums & reporting bugs (as my time allows). But that's it.
What I'd support would be a fork of LC from the 6 series:
First creating 64-bit versions of it, with emphasis on Windows, Linux and Android (where there's money to earn for the coder). If necessary & too much hassle, even scrapping Apple support.
Then ironing out bugs. Lather, rinse, repeat. Again.
Then adding a native data structure & native visual representation of row/column data, including real arrays (not only hash tables).
A "LC Classic LTS" for professional coders - well, guess this will remain a dream of a grumpy old coder.
Atm there's no thought of it anyways - corona lock-down everywhere, customers struggling, it's not the time where there's much free money available.
Btw., I got adventurous & installed a generic Ubuntu 20.04.2 server on a spare machine. After an epic battle with Samba I actually got LC server Linux-64 9.6.2 rc5 running, only libFontConfig was missing. I also installed 8.2, works as well.
Only LC 6 makes problems - a "ldd" shows "not a dynamic executable" (but "stat" gives equal information as 8/9).
Anyways, now another dungeon has to be conquered before I can start testing: installing Apache & coercing it to run CGIs ...
Have fun!
Memo to myself: Stop writing off topic!!!