On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:31:49 -0800 Anthony Gorecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday, February 13, 2005 4:34 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Same as everything else. dev-php things are *not* guaranteed to be | > platform independent. | | For example, a PHP application written solely for Linux would have | little luck accessing the /var/www/html directory on a Windows web | server.
That's a really terrible example, since we only care about UNIXy things. If you want to illustrate, you could mention different stable app and library versions, screwed up endian or word size code (yes, you can do this in php) or making invalid assumptions about the system it's running on (*cough* phpsysinfo *cough*). The filesystem thing might become relevant once we start caring about osx, but that's ages off. Plus, there's the underlying assumption that these packages have been tested at all on non-x86, and that they didn't just get keywords back in the days when the general attitude was to add ~everything to new packages, regardless of missing dependencies, whether it actually worked or not, whether it even compiled or not and whether it is an x86 binary only package. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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