Re: portability as a goal for debian?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:14:49PM -0700, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> hamish@debian.org (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
> > I don't think every software author should have to write for the
> > simplest compiler just because some OSs don't have anything better.
>
> No, but I don't think it's unreasonable to require (or at least
> encourage) every software author to write to standards (ANSI for C/C++;
> JLS for Java, etc.). If given a choice between writing code that'll only
> compile on gcc or code that'll compile on any ANSI standard compiler,
> I'll go with the ANSI-compliant code, if for no other reason than more
> people are likely to be conversant with ANSI standards than gcc's
> proprietary extensions.
OK. But perhaps gcc isn't a good example; personally I couldn't even
name any of the gcc extensions. On the other hand, the improvements
in tar and make are much more obvious (to me, anyway).
Hamish
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