On Thursday 02 September 2004 16:18, Jan Schaumann wrote: > Ciprian Popovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose at some point we will have to lose the "no external > > dependencies other than X" slogan. > > That is quite unfortunate. I was rather fond of being able to > install my working environment with less than 10 add-on packages. > > FWIW, I don't really like reasoning along the lines of ``oh, > everybody already has package X installed anyway, so we can also rely > on it''.
I completely understand. If I may, I'd like to elaborate my reasoning in more detail: "The function we use is defined by POSIX, but not available on all system, except as an add-on. We can safely assume that other software that is or will be installed will also use this POSIX defined function, so there's nothing to stop us from using it as well." > Just my $.02. > > -Jan -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
