Alfred may be going about it in an antisocial way, and he is certainly being a holier than thou little shit in his proclamations about the One True Way Of GNU,
Uhm, you really should learn to read. GNU should run GNU programs, we have GNU programs, we don't have GNU, you wish to not support POSIX, which GNU programs assume, it follows that GNU programs won't run on GNU, so what is the One True Way of the GNU again Oh Great Know-it-all? Not running GNU programs? The issue that we need to look at is: are his assumptions about the requirements for compatibility and the costs of incompatibility correct? He assumes that we must throw away large quantities of code. If the system doesn't support POSIX, then yes, you will have to throw out/rewrite a lot of code. Unless you also plan to add a POSIX layer on top of things, which I can't imagine that you want to do when you say things like `not create a POSIX system'. There is evidence that this assumption is wrong. Prove it, port Emacs to a non-POSIX system. Humor me. I will shortly post a note on this subject so that we can all examine this in a more structured discussion. So as always, you resort to academia: Theory with vauge ties to reality. _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
