Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:59:51PM +0000, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2003-09-04 at 00:11 -0700, Kelson Vibber wrote:
Where do we draw the line... and why? Compatibility? Ideology?
And to throw in even more flamebait (which I will not defend :-) ... ) The BSD's are not really free software in the meaning of FSF's definition ;-) ... To me, it doesn't matter, though.
Suggestion: the point where conditional code compilation is being scattered throughout the code.
On the other hand, it is truely beneficial for producing clean code (i.e. not lots of ifdefs) when trying to compile on largely different platforms. I speak from experience when I say that trying to compile with a different compiler (or on a different platform) usually reveals bugs. So far, dillo is mainly compiled with gcc - I'm not sure about the various solaris efforts, though. I personally once tried IBM's xlc compiler on AIX. It mostly worked and resulted in a few minor code cleanups, that went into dillo. Hmmm, I really should try Intel's IFC or tendra at some point .... Anyways, that alone would make a native Windows port at least interesting. Not that I have any experience with Micorsofts C-compiler, nor that I know about Windows Posix compliance (didn't some Windows version receive some sort of Unix specification ?). Still, I'm sure things will show up that may be real bugs. And these are just the purely technical and objective issues that came up when reading the recent mails on this list :-)
Jorge: I've been at a conference and now am on a different desktop, so am not easily able to test the alternate fix for FreeBSD and the IO errors -- since Andreas reports that things work fine for him now, I'll take it on faith that the problem has been resolved -- thanks for the prompt response!
It doesn't lock up any more. Sometimes, I'm not sure if there are still issues or not. It simply may be the local network like DNS servers etc. As I said, I'll report problems once I'll find them :-) Cheers, Andreas -- **************************** NEW ADDRESS ****************************** Hamburger Sternwarte Universitaet Hamburg Gojenbergsweg 112 Tel. ++49 40 42891 4016 D-21029 Hamburg, Germany Fax. ++49 40 42891 4198