Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:32:08 -1000 (HST) Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > Marginal because we are only effecting source portability at a Makefile
> > level. Yawn.
>
> with sun glasses on source portability may be boring
> that was very clear a few messages back which suggested introducing a
> sun only name for a specific library with no qualms
> such details are not boring for the rest of the non-sun community
> tasked with keeping track of vendor whims
I should note that I also use a set of libraries that help me to obtain
portability across a large number of platforms.
It is not a simple task to introduce any changes on such a framework
without the risk of loosing portability to some plaforms you have no
access to and thus cannot test. If you only need to modify string
processing in the makefiles, it may be possible....
But simlar to the software David/Glenn work on, I cannot give up my
makefilesystem for the official portability framework. The OpenSolaris
build system may be sufficient for compiling OpenSolaris on more than
one processor but it definitely is not sufficient to support really
portable applications.
Fortunately, it seems that we only have to talk about 2 such systems (the
Korn/Fowler system and my system) as there does not seem to be a real
unique and widely working GNU method for portability.
What we should discuss here is _not_ wehther to include the libraries
from ksh93 but how to include them and whether these libraries should be
deemed ksh internal or for general users.
For me there would be an interesting OSS aspect that is a result from the fact
that Korn/Fowler system is very similar to my sytem and thus is very
different. I would like to know whether an application could use libs from both
worlds.....
J?rg
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