Hello, On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:05:25PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > After some time, the answer to me has two pieces: > > 1) Continue the tradition that made GNU software strong: its > portability to non-GNU systems of all kinds. > > 2) Give the complete GNU system an advantage by writing GNU programs > so that they exploit the special features only found in GNU. > > These plans seem to be contradictory, but I believe all that is > missing is a software package which makes it easy for programmers to > satisfy both goals. With such a package, people would be able to > develop new programs for non-GNU systems, but those programs would be > faster/safer/simpler when they were run under GNU. Conversely, people > would be able to develop new programs for GNU, and these programs > would be immediately portable to non-GNU systems.
One dumb question about these goals and GNU Mach : is there a kind of `POSIMACH', that is : is GNU Mach developed with the idea to allow straightforward porting of other OS servers (4.3BSD, OSF/1, HPUX, etc...) in order to allow them to run on top of GNU Mach ? Thanks, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://www.april.org/ 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/
