Subj : Synchronet and OS2 (?)
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Feb 20 2024 23:27:42

  Re: Synchronet and OS2 (?)
  By: Marc Lewis to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Feb 20 2024 06:27 pm

 >  > May be a crazy question, but is there a version of Synchronet that runs
 >  > natively under OS/2?
 >
 >  DM> Yes, v2.30: https://synchro.net/download.xjs
 >
 > Got it.  Now I wonder if it would be possible to commpile the current V3.2
 > source code to run under OS/2?   (I know - probably not, but thought I'd ask
 > anyway. <g> )

It's certainly not something I intend to try or support. The first question to answer would be: can the JavaScript engine and Crypto (SSH/TLS) engine that Synchronet relies upon be built for OS/2 and I'm pretty sure that answer is no. And getting those ported to OS/2 would be likely much harder than porting Synchronet itself. You could probably build a version of Synchronet without those features (JS, TLS/SSL) on OS/2, but it would take a very motivated C/C++ programmer (and OS/2 lover - AKA, not me) to take on such a task.

So... not impossible, but highly improbable.
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