[Debburn-devel] What is going on?

[Peter Samuelson]

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

Well, I didn't just mean the compiler features, but also the runtime.
For the compiler it would be nice to rely on <inttypes.h> (especially
int64_t), but there's also C99 library APIs like strtoll() (which
obviously wasn't in C89 because 'long long' wasn't).  Being able to
rely on int64_t, but not things like strtoll, is still a bit limiting.


> It's likely that people just use the free version of Nero though, and
> wouldn't really want the port.

I've seen cdrecord used on win32.  That was several years ago, though,
in this day and age you may be right.

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

I'm sure there's a healthy userbase for Solaris and the BSDs/Darwin.  I
don't know whether anyone cares about old, posix-challenged Unixes for
this sort of thing anymore.
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