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


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