Todd Walton wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:45 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 07:06:50PM -0700, SJS wrote:
"All the world is Linux".
That's a little better than "All the world is RedHat".
Nowadays you may hear, "All the world is Ubuntu" in some parts too.
Even if Autotools was Unix-agnostic, I could complain that it wasn't
workable on Unix *and* Windows.
I like this argument. Being the devil's advocate to this argument,
the best I can come up with is this:
"Red Hat -> Linux -> Unixish -> POSIX has a small enough barrier that
there's no excuse for stopping anywhere short of POSIX."
Except that maybe there was.
The "Unixish -> POSIX" can be quite severe. The only build tool which
seems to handle that jump is scons, but that is more "scons has lots of
Visual C/C++ recipes" rather than "Visual C/C++ is Posix"
The "Doesn't work anywhere but RedHat or Linux" is simple laziness.
*Especially* given how easy VM systems are to set up for software
development.
-a
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