> I trust that this is not a remark against GNU, but rather a > request for true portability, meaning we can't require any > particular libc, etc.
Right. > True support for these means that they are implicitly supported. > That is, it is bad to use #define and autoconf tricks to > achieve that support. All 5 of these should be supported, > without explicit knowledge of any of them. You're talking about the difference between "portable" and "ported". The first is the more desirable; software that doesn't make assumptions is better than N conditional assumptions. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
