[Eug-lug] backporting?

[Bob Miller]

walter fry wrote:

> Walter_newbe_Freihube here,,,what means backporting ? please..

Porting generally means making a program run on a different
environment than it was originally designed for.  For example, a game
might be ported from Mac to Windows.  The effort is primarily in
rewriting OS or platform dependent code, which might be extensive.
Other less obvious differences are things like word length or byte
order.

In the FOSS[1] world, people put a fair amount of effort into making
software easy to port.  (Mostly. (-: )

Backporting means porting something, usually a bug fix, to an earlier
rev. of software.  For example, most of Linux's USB support was
developed for the 2.6 kernel but has been backported into 2.4.


[1] FOSS: Free/Open Source Software

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