Paul Pluzhnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So *all* code you depend on is available in source.
Not all. Something, e.g. qt, works across our platforms. > That must mean that you only use Linux, because on every other > platform you do depend on "other code available only in binary form" > if only for libc. In which world do you live, please? At FNAL we use PC/Linux and SGI/Irix, at CERN PC/Linux and Sun/Solaris. The portability is guaranteed by the conformity of the code, not by having the source code of the underlying OS. I may add that using the same code on several platforms and with different compilers (I mentioned KCC) is of great help in making it bug-free. > Also, this could not be have been true throughout your 36 year > experience, since Linux is only 15 year old. In the good ol'days of the bubble chambers, I had my code (FOARTAN) ported on IBM 7090, IBM/370, CDC 7600. I ever ported "shape" (a reconstruction and kinematics package), "minuits" (function minimisation) and "kiowa" (an histogramming package) on the first minicomputer, an HP 2100. I had to write an editor myself (in assembler) for the 2100: line-oriented, called "upda" if you care, because the native one was largely insufficient. -- Maurizio Loreti http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy ROT13: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Help-gplusplus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus
