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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework |
Date: |
Wed, 10 May 2006 18:45:47 +0200 |
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Hi,
Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> `package-framework' is lucky to exist in a *slightly* simpler
> world. It is much easier to write portable code, even for
> many low-level system operations, without any pre-processor
> conditionals at all.
This may only be true when writing very simple C code. When it comes to
things like raw I/O (i.e., not ANSI C's `fopen' et al. functions, but
rather `read', `write', etc.), in particular in non-nominal situations
(e.g., non-blocking I/O), or, worse, socket-based networking,
portability among Unices does not exist at all and feature tests looks
like the best way to overcome this.
OTOH, fortunately, more and more higher-level, portable libraries are
being used (e.g., GNet, Glib, and G-friends), and a lot of portable
language runtimes are available as well (for Scheme, CL, Python, etc.).
But in the latter case, the configuration step is mostly unneeded.
Thanks,
Ludovic.
- [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Sylvain Beucler, 2006/05/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Andy Tai, 2006/05/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Sylvain Beucler, 2006/05/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Thomas Lord, 2006/05/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Debian and package-framework, Miles Bader, 2006/05/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Thomas Lord, 2006/05/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Debian and package-framework, Miles Bader, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Debian and package-framework, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2006/05/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Debian and package-framework, Stefan Monnier, 2006/05/11
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Debian and package-framework, Thomas Lord, 2006/05/09