DOS ain't dead

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

posted by tkchia , 22.11.2021, 20:18

> > Well, nah, I think the Gnulib maintainers decided that they are not
> > supporting DJGPP, just because.
> I don't think it's "just because". Probably the project want to use some
> modern API provided by modern unix(like) OS that DOS/DJGPP lacks. It then
> complicate things when you need to emulate something missing. Also there

Except that one of Gnulib's goals is to be that portability emulation layer ("Gnulib is intended to be the canonical source for most of the important `portability' and/or common files for GNU projects").

Which means that, basically, the Gnulib maintainers decided that DJGPP is so hard — or obscure, etc. — to port software to, that they do not want to create a portability layer for it. And they have every right to make that decision, of course.

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