On 21/05/2017 16:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:58 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
On 21/05/2017 12:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
Explain why ALL these drivers, including the one I've just created, need to
be part of the common source code for the OS.
I don't know. YOU are the one who said the source code should be in a
single file.
No, it was you challenged me to produce a one-file kernel source code.
What I wanted was a more streamlined, more compact, more portable, less
troublesome way of distributing self-contained applications. I wasn't
suggesting bundling the source to an entire OS with it!
I don't consider the CPython bundle that portable because it really
demands that it be built under Linux. There is (now) a grudging
concession for Windows, but that solution wasn't satisfactory when I
tried it.
My links show extreme versions of what is possible. For much simple
applications, but they will still comprise 1% of the number of files
that would otherwise be required if I simply made available my sprawling
working setup like everyone else.
(With Linux kernels, I don't know enough about them to provide realistic
answers. But 60,000 files seems a lot, for the same reason that 100,000
files for a C compiler [gcc] seems a lot considering that some are MUCH
smaller. But then, both these projects are dwarfed by the apparent 1.5
*million* files of the VS sources.)
--
bartc
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
