[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross platform
- From: Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:50:35 -0500
>> 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?
well, i think that POSIX would be an excellent model. i just think
that there is likely to be a lot of opposition from others who see
POSIX as a way for Unix-heads to sneak their own view of the universe
into GMPI. and in some senses, they'd be right. otoh, POSIX is
probably the best and perhaps only example of a comprehensive attempt
to define portable OS services.
--p
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