On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:52:59PM +1300, David McNab wrote: > Hi devl, > > Who's the cunt who took the windows-specific code out of fcptools? 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
Yes I'm the so-called cunt. I asked nicely in a private email if I could make the ezFCPlib more portable. I thought you agreed. In the free software world, true portability is achieved by not coding anything specific to Windows. It is a closed-source, binary-only proprietery API that changes without notice. Moving to an ANSI-C, POSIX codebase removes much of the spaghetti code involved in doing things differently depending on the OS. I don't think it's possible to say the FCPtools are stable when the code branches innumerable times for many operations like threading, file and directory handling and so on. And this solution which doesn't work within MS-VC works in practically every other platform known to man. I've even checked-in the executables I created here on my NT/Cygwin setup. I would not have been able to do the FCPtools from scratch like David has; and David does not have the experience I have in writing portable code. I'm attempting to make a good tool set better. peace. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
