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UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification (Developers)

posted by tkchia , 22.11.2021, 18:27

Hello Rugxulo,

> Part of my complaint is that certain projects aren't really "portable" and
> thus only cater to the obvious Linux or *BSD crowds (and also forcibly
> Windows, if even, because of marketshare). You know, the projects who are
> "POSIX only!" and won't even accept working patches (!) for impure hybrid
> environments like DJGPP.

Well, nah, I think the Gnulib maintainers decided that they are not supporting DJGPP, just because.

For other projects that are not Gnulib, well, my thinking is that developing portable software is always tricky. There is no way to attain portability without testing your software on all the platforms that they should run on.

And this gives rise to another question: why do we have the expectation that some project's source tree should be easily buildable for a wide range of platforms?

Thank you!

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Complete thread:

• UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - Rugxulo, 14.11.2021, 19:15 (Developers)
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - rr, 14.11.2021, 21:55
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 15.11.2021, 21:32
    • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - Rugxulo, 20.11.2021, 22:39
      • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 22.11.2021, 18:27
        • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - RayeR, 22.11.2021, 18:49
          • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 22.11.2021, 20:18
            • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - RayeR, 23.11.2021, 05:04
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 15.11.2021, 22:24