[X2go-dev] x2go on RedHat, AIX and Solaris

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 11:16 +0100, Marcin Krol wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> My company is doing testing on a lot of platforms (most mainstream
> platforms in existence I believe, including IBM i5). Having x2go in
> debian  repositories and working out of box is great, but some need it
> on other platforms too. In particular we'd like to see x2go servers on
> most releases of RedHat (both x86 and x64, even ppc), AIX (5.3, 6.1) and
> Solaris (9, 10, x64, sparc).
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> Before I set out to compiling x2go on those platforms, I need to ask
> here if this even makes sense, i.e. if x2go is portable enough to be
> compiled from sources "out of box" e.g. on AIX and have CDE as window
> manager. So is it?
> 
> I'm willing to devote some effort to this (although I can't promise to
> make this my full time job). I can compile and test stuff all right (I
> know some C and C++), but don't know enough about Xwindow to be able to
> port X software really.
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I can't speak for the developers but I'd guess it is almost entirely a
packaging issue.  One might have to look in the scripts, particularly
the postgresqql scripts to see if there is anything different between
Debian and RedHat.  I believe Russ Herrold was considering this so he
may have more accurate input - John