andrew clarke wrote: > 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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