Quoting Jeff Trawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Branko �ibej wrote: > > > Imagine the mess if all APR users started to use APR_PLATFORM_IS_HPUX to > > decide the .so vs. .sl thing... this is exactly what APR is meant to avoid. > > Another factor is that not every portability issue affecting > applications that use APR is going to be adopted by APR as a problem > that it can or should solve. Some issues will always pop up for certain > apps, and whether or not APR provides a clean way to check the platform > isn't going to change that fact.
So, what you're proposing is that APR provide mechanisms for people to write platform-specific code? That's in direct conflict with our mission to provice "predictable if not identical" behaviour across platforms. (It also seems a bit weird, but maybe that's just me... :-)
