On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:21:39 +0200 Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis
> <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Yeah, that’ll work great until the moment someone supports three
> > OSes. Or supports all OSes except a specific one.
> > (Alien::NotVMS::FooBar?)
>
> Or only recent versions of an OS…
I think we're still missing some essential question here. To take a
really concrete example - does Alien::libtermkey "support" Linux?
* It works on -my- Linux box.
* It won't work on any Linux box that lacks GNU libtool, or GNU make,
even though those can just be installed.
* It won't work on any Linux box that lacks both unibilium and
ncurses's development headers.
Chris: Given the above, would you say that Alien::libtermkey supports
Linux or not?
If no => then surely no Alien:: module can ever be said to support
-any- OS, since its dependencies could just not be present.
If yes => then surely in my case at least, Alien::libtermkey can be
said to support Windows too.
This really is the core of my confusion here.
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