[Debburn-devel] What is going on?

[Albert Cahalan]

On 9/10/06, Peter Samuelson <peter at p12n.org> wrote:

> Now that I don't know.  It would also be nice to nail down specific
> portability goals.  We've already decided that ANSI C is a reasonable
> requirement, but can we assume all cdrkit users will have 4.3BSD or
> SVR4 functionality?  It would simplify life considerably if we could
> require a C99 compiler and a POSIX runtime, but I'm guessing that is
> asking too much.

Note that a C99 requirement merely rules out many compilers.
You can use gcc on Windows, even without Cygwin.

POSIX of course hits one particular OS. Cygwin is not
a reasonable way to support that OS, but coding up some
of the POSIX functions would be reasonable. It's likely
that people just use the free version of Nero though, and
wouldn't really want the port.

Of course, if nobody cares about non-Linux, things can
be greatly simplified.