Getting pedantic here...
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:55:14 -0400
Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Ramon Ribó <ram...@compassis.com> wrote:
> > MacOSX is using UNIX line ending since more than 10 years-ago.
> > In modern computers, there are two options:
> > Unix/MacOSX: LF
> Also, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, NetBSD, OpenBSD, QNX, etc.
Solaris, AIX and HPUX are UNIX(tm) systems, and are (or were, I
haven't kept careful track) derived from AT&T Unix
distributions. NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD can all trace their
genealogy back to AT&T source code, but aren't UNIX(tm) systems, just
Unix-like. For that matter, Mac OSX is a UNIX(tm) system, but shares
the BSD genealogy instead of being derived from an AT&T distribution.
Also: Minix, Ubuntu, Redhat, Gentoo, Fedora, Debian, etc, which are
Unix-like but have source code that never included AT&T code.
> > Windows: CR-LF
> There are countless operating systems available today, each with is own
> peccadillos. So why is it always windows that gives trouble? The more one
> tries to make code cross-platform, the more one realizes that windows is the
> problem child.
Basically, Unix won. I think Windows is the last system maintaining
backwards compatibility to systems that predate the rise of Unix.
Pretty much everything else either was designed with the Unix model in
mind, or converted to it somewhere along the way.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if there were more Unix-like
systems than Windows systems in the world, given that two of the three
most popular smart phone/tablet OS's (IOS and Android) are Unix-like,
and the popularity of Unix-like OS's on embedded devices. Most of them
could probably be convinced to run a static build of fossil, but not a
dynamic one, as there's a fair chance they've been stripped of one or
more libraries that fossil needs.
<mike
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the Single UNIX Specification.
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