On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:00:32AM -0000, Abhay Padlia wrote:

> Not exactly a web page describing the differences, but a "standard
> function library" at:
> 
> http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/

Have you actually tried to build this?  I had a go at it on FreeBSD and
was disappointed when I ran into a fair bit of trouble, although some
parts of it seemed to build properly after I converted the source files
to UNIX text file format.

The amount of work required to actually get it to build properly could
explain why it's not in the FreeBSD Ports tree.  It's all a bit odd
considering its claims of portability.

Maybe the code itself is more portable than the build scripts provided
with it.

Also, the most recent version is 7 years old, which I also find a bit
odd.  Although that could just be because the standard general APIs of
most modern mainstream operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux, *BSD)
has not changed at all in that time.  Which is probably a good thing!

Regards
Andrew

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