Considering the small amount of code in there, it might be cleaner in the
end to keep them separate. If I'm a Linux guy, I might not want to have to
deal with the stuff in there that was put there to make it work on Solaris,
and vice versa. Conditional code is always very difficult to maintain,
particularly when (after making even small changes) you have to build it on
multiple systems to make sure you didn't break either of them.
Having said that, I'm not a Unix guy of any sort and if everyone deems it a
worthy cause, I have no problem with it.
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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
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Hi,
I have looked into the platform files for solaris and linux.
They look totally different if one looks at diff. But essentially the
difference is quite small. Wouldn't it be better to move from
'platform-dependent' files to 'feature-dependent'?
It should be alot easier to maintain and to port.
Axel
