From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130329201035.GA3950@polynum.com> References: <17666A31-B506-46C1-972F-2D6407C4B8DD@corpus-callosum.com> <20130329174148.GA98286@intma.in> <24472F85-7A42-4CDD-8CF2-5A1CEB25E109@corpus-callosum.com> <20130329190345.GA2335@polynum.com> <20130329191220.GA9082@intma.in> <20130329201035.GA3950@polynum.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:32:45 +0000 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d0438ee617bbe8104d9162c8e Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a219ac4-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d0438ee617bbe8104d9162c8e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 29 March 2013 20:10, wrote: > > It is a POSIX feature, I think. It's just an outmoded one. Supporting > > all revisions of POSIX is damn near impossible. Does APE have an > > explicit target? > I think it's really a pragmatic matter of which interfaces are in some standard that can be named, that are also needed by most software that's being imported (eg, newer versions of Python). --f46d0438ee617bbe8104d9162c8e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 29 March 2013 20:10, <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> It is a POSIX feature, I think. =C2=A0It's just = an outmoded one. =C2=A0Supporting
> all revisions of POSIX is damn near impossible. =C2=A0Does APE have an=
> explicit target?

I think it's real= ly a pragmatic matter of which interfaces are in some standard that can be = named,
that are also needed by most s= oftware that's being imported (eg, newer versions of Python).
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