At 03:38 PM 6/7/2002 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >Is the goal to eliminate all the stdio code, so that by release parrot >can't run on stdio? (ie all OSes must have some sort of direct layer, and >porting parrot involves creating such a layer if none exists)
As far as I know, yes. >Or that parrot should by default compile without stdio, but provide an >"OS" layer that is actually stdio. That way new platforms can initially run >on stdio (if they have it) until the platform porter implements a direct >interface. Which makes porting less steep. Probably makes sense. -Melvin