On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 13:46:22 UTC, Isak Andersson wrote:
Based on my experience POSIX compliance is like any standard.
You end up getting lots of #ifdef for each POSIX system
anyway. The only people that think POSIX is a standard without
any issues, only know GNU/Linux.
One thing missing from the list which costs a lot of effort,
is code generation.
Based on my toy Solaris experience with DMD, I think it is
easier to use LDC or GDC for bringing D to other platforms.
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Paulo
Yeah, it seems like POSIX kind of failed in the sense that you
can't just have a simple posix makefile that works for any
posix compliant os.
The problem with using those is that most D libraries are built
with DMD in mind, like Vibe.d. DMD is pretty much setting the
standard for how D behaves.
Yeah there are two main issues with POSIX:
- versions, which means you never know how compliant a given
system is
- like C, the standard allows for implementation defined behaviors
In the end #ifdef all the way, no different than using a
non-POSIX system.
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Paulo
