On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>has to be taken to make sure that something as simple as his script is
>>portable, maybe it's because of your constant rambilings against Linux and
>>GNU and pro-Standards. Dunno.
>
>If people in the Linux universe don't care about portability (even
>bewteen different Linux distributions) then good bye UNIX and hello M$.
Portability is important, but the importance varies from app to
app IMHO. There is no need to make things unportable really
unless it is something very unportable to begin with and making
it portable is outside the scope of a project's goals.
I think standards, wether defacto or official are necessary as
well for the benefit of all, which is why we try to follow SuSv2,
ISO C99, LSB, FHS, etc.
I believe Linux distributions are becoming more alike than more
apart, so it is a good thing as applications will be easier to
write and work everywhere. This is different topic however than
portability to non-Linux systems which issues shall remain for
quite some time until older systems are considered deprecated and
not worth supporting.
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