On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:07 PM Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> wrote:
> > > I'm +1 in general for your proposal. I also like the idea to adopt >> > Rust's platform support definition. >> > +1, but see below. > > The main thing from a project maintenance perspective is for platforms to > not become a burden to other code maintainers. PRs need to be reviewed. > Every #if/#endif in code is a cognitive burden. So being a minor platform > can come with unexpected breakages that need fixing due to other changes > made in the codebase that did not pay attention to the platform. As we > cannot expect everyone working on code to care about anything beyond the > tier-1 fully supported platforms, buildbot or not. > I think #ifdef's are a big part of the problem, actually. IIRC, the Linux kernel has been reducing/eliminating #ifdef's and instead using different .c's for each platform's platform-specific code.
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