On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:11:04PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> > For example, I think it is extremely important that in the free
> > software community we stop duplicating code [2]. One good place to start
> > helping Netscape / OpenOffice share a common cross platform compatibility
> > layer with us would be at the system abstraction level.
>
> Hmm, one thing I forgot in my other mail. I have considered this
> issue, but as I said haven't done so in a GLib context. Because I
> don't think "just use GLib" is a solution that will fly.
>
> If you want a standard that lots of projects will use, it needs to be
> clearly separated organizationally and historically from any one
> project. You also need everyone to feel involved in that standard. So
> typically it's necessary to create a new codebase or new specification
> in order to achieve standardization.
>
> So I have in the past considered the issue of a cross-project system
> abstraction, but have not considered GLib a viable candidate for
> that. Maybe this helps you understand the current direction of GLib.
>
> Also, from a technical standpoint GLib is very C-centric and
> UNIX-centric, and this limits its generality.
Allow me to take a moment to plug a really cool cross platform
portable runtime: APR, the Apache Portable Runtime. It's really cool,
does lots of things everyone wants, and works on *lots* of platforms
(like Windows, OS/2 and BeOS, for example). And they are going to fix
the license issues Real Soon Now.
This is, of course, not something for GNOME 2, but is cool, and should
definitely be considered rather than having Yet Another Portability
Layer.
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