On 30/04/2012, at 8:38 AM, Jeff Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:50:15PM +1000, john skaller wrote:
>> We should note here: Felix provides two kinds of platform independence.
>> Some things are done by C++ conditional compilation or link time
>> library selection. This means the genera
Ok, so what I'm doing is this:
Files:
std/filestat
std/posix/filestat
std/win32/filestat
classes:
+++
std/filestat:
=
class FileStat_class[os, ..others]
{
virtual ...
}
include "std/posix/filestat";
include "std/win32/filestat";
// default to Host OS class
class FileStat {
On 26/04/2012, at 3:21 AM, Raoul Duke wrote:
> seems like the kind of thing you can't get right from the get-go?
Not enough use cases to generalise.
> trying to figure out, as it sounds like you are doing, a flexible
> layout for things so that it can be externalized in libraries and so
> that
seems like the kind of thing you can't get right from the get-go?
trying to figure out, as it sounds like you are doing, a flexible
layout for things so that it can be externalized in libraries and so
that people can revamp them over time to improve things, that would be
a nice ground to gain? (try
Now we're trying to get stuff working on Windows, we need a model
for portable code. Note there's a trickiness needed here:
a) Cygwin can do both posix and windows functions,
so it may not be "one or the other"
b) We still need to write platform specific code
c) All OS .. especially posix .. hav
