Talk:backport

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• backported: net.unix-wizards - Sep 18 1983, 6:06 pm by ron%brl

  We are running a V6 based system with V7 file systems crafted in (but it still supports V6 ones too) and the Berkeley TCP/IP implementation backported (we gotta be on the net) but without such attrosities as systems that won't run on small PDP-11's or funny multiplexed files or packet drivers or protocol machines...

• back-ported: net.bugs.usg - Nov 29 1984, 3:32 pm by Doug Gwyn

  (3) Additional terminal capabilities were added, some of which could be back-ported into termcap and some of which rely on terminfo special abilities.

• backport: net.bugs.2bsd - Dec 8 1984, 8:59 pm by Greg Satz

  Added hkroot here too. Will backport to conf someday.

• back ported: net.bugs.2bsd - Dec 8 1984, 8:59 pm by Greg Satz

  back ported fix for the soreceive panic that John Stewart fixed in the 2.8 version.

• back-port: comp.bugs.sys5 - Jan 18 1987, 9:22 am by Larry Campbell

  If it weren't for the impending arrival (S5R3) of streams and RFS, I'd be tempted to give up, buy a source license, and back-port the print spool stuff to V7.

• back-porting: comp.unix.questions - Oct 9 1987, 8:14 am by David H. Brierley

  In the event that nobody has a DELUA driver for 4.2, can anyone provide useful hints for back-porting the 4.3 driver?

• backporting: comp.lang.c - Jun 8 1988, 5:36 pm by Arthur David Olson

  Now if we #define void int as the standard suggests for backporting purposes, "old" compilers will happily compile the code without complaint--and on systems where (int *) != (char *), all hell will mysteriously break loose at runtime.

• back ports: alt.sys.sun - Sep 19 1991, 2:58 am by David G. Hough on validgh

  2) Back ports to any specific existing platform is relatively unlikely compared to ports to new platforms.

• backports: comp.databases.oracle - Aug 14 1994, 2:30 am by Douglas Rady

  I think backports to 7.0.16 _may_ be available on some ports for the bug Lee mentioned above (bug# 169181) but I am not certain.

— Hippietrail 12:40, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

downport

It doesn't seem to meet our CFI requirements but you can find some uses of downport on the Web, possibly referring to ports (platform conversions) of video games etc. that have dropped features or are somehow inferior. Equinox ◑ 09:59, 27 July 2019 (UTC)