[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform

  • From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:15:03 +0000

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:05:16 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >I'm making the point that the host interface shouldn't be forced to provide 
> >every conceivable OS feature just in order that the implementation code be 
> >completely platform independent.
> 
> agreed. i think one of our tasks is to identify the set of OS features
> that will cover, oh, 98% of all cases, and then to follow the
> excellent maxim: "make the easy trivial, the hard easy, and the
> impossible feasible."

To feed your own answer back, isn't that what the POSIX people did? I know
windows has a POSIX layer, and MacOS X and Linux do obviously. I guess
pre-X MaxOS would be problematic.

Or are you talking about just the things that will be provided by the host?

- Steve

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