Re: ANNOUNCE: DTraq Released

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Simon Wright wrote:
> Thanks for a valuable discussion.
> 
> The only reason I got involved was that I felt that people were
> getting the wrong end of the stick about GPL licensing and the impact
> on their own code, which is as we all know an emotive issue round
> here.

Agreed, on both counts :-)  Licensing can get tricky, particularly when 
part of the product has to get compiled/linked into the client.

> A question -- is DTraq endian-independent? that is, could the client
> be a PowerPC (in our case, running VxWorks) and the logging server be
> an Intel machine? We achieve this using the stream attributes, with a
> special little-endian System.Stream_Attributes body that converts
> to/from the native PPC form. This has the advantage that the target
> runtime is the vendor's, unmodified.

At the moment, no.  I have the approach worked out for adding that, but its 
addition has to compete with numerous other improvements on the list :-)

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