On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:16:07PM -0700, Kyle Williams wrote: > > I'll be working to increase Polipo's portability for GSoC 2009, > > I thought Polipo was already portable. I've been using it with D.A.D. on a > USB drive for over a year, and haven't had any problems.
In software development lingo, portability has to do with whether a program compiles and runs on a variety of architectures and operating systems. It's a different term than the collection of "portable foo" programs that aim to be run without needing system libraries/etc. --Roger