[plug] code porting

[Shayne O'Neill]

You really need to just find a good unix/linux coder.

For the most part, I imagine stuff will 'just work', with the possible
exceptions of the widget set on X and eosoteria like threading etc.

Now that said, its *very* wise to go thru with a fine comb and make sure
*NO* sco headers/libs etc are carried across. Its the basis of the US
end-user cases (well at least one of em) on at the moment, and SCO do seem
in a particularly violent mood lately.

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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Bernd Felsche wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 16:01, Bennett, Phillip wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > The company I work for is currently trying to migrate one of our systems
> > to Linux from (gasp!) SCO.  We have the source code for the program and
> > want to port it.
>
> Language?
>
> I suppose there's no
> 	./configure
> 	make all
> 	make install
> ?? :-(
>
> > Does anyone know who in Perth would do this kind of thing?  That is, if
> > there is anyone in Perth for this type of work.
>
> > Also, would anyone have a rough estimate of the cost of such a venture?
>
> How long is a piece of string. :-)
>
> My guess is; start at $10,000 and work upwards. If it takes 2 weeks
> to figure out how it's supposed to work, then most of the money is
> burned up in that alone.
>
> But then; it might be a trivial port; "done" in 8 hours.
>
> > It's a firly straight forward X based program for logging information and
>
> X-based? I assume CDE or whatever... but it depends a lot on how
> much it's tied into the desktop environment.
>
> > printing reciepts of events.  It also runs an ingress database.
>
> Mkay?! CA should have equivalent libraries.
>
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