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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We are using Spread (4.0) in a mixed environment including Windows machines (NT6/6.1 kernel, amd64).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>John Schultz said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> “I'd still recommend you upgrade to 4.2.0 or the new 4.3.0 release candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> That goes for everyone else reading this too!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’d really like to migrate since some features of 4.2 would ease considerably our deployment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(most notably the use of monotone clocks, we might at long last be able to run daemons in VMs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>but it is unclear if monotone clocks are/could be supported by the current code base on NT6/6.1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’ve looked quickly at the source, but the current tree for 4.2 seems to be quite “windows unfriendly”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’m quite experienced at the game of “porting” Unix/Linux code to a native VS build, but I’m reluctant to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>do a large patch to Spread : we use it mainly for its reliability, and tinkering with the low level event<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>handling of the core network code does not strike me as a good idea…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’ve seems at least two messages in this list in the past few months about this issue. The most recent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>being from Robert Mecklenburg (2013/04/18). In this message he said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> “I have just compiled 4.2.0 on MS Visual Studio 2005… </span>238 lines of sources changes… <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Do you want these diffs? If so, how would you like them delivered?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So well… I’d like those diffs :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>But it would be really nice if a core dev of Spread could vet an official release or at least<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>a semi-official patch. I’d be glad to help in the creation/test of a Win release with a VS build.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Yoann<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>