>From jlocke at optonline.net >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? >01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 789 > >Yes I'm the so-called cunt. > >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. >
Oook. So, we become portable by re-defining portability to be what we were going to code to anyway. That must make things easier. -- Benjamin Coates P.S. It's really OK to admit that you don't know how to do Win32. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
