Re: [9front] move zlib source from ghostscript to ape/lib/z and update to latest zlib

[Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>]

there was a program in comp.sources.unix (or maybe misc) called unifdef which would apply selective conditionals and oreserved comments. it is so old it is orobably pre andi and may not know about c++ style comments, but maybe it would help. 

itwould allow you tokeep only the os support you need - and make the code mire readable perhaps.

-Steve


> On 2 Mar 2020, at 11:09 pm, kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote:
> 
> 
>> how did this got so bad?
> 
> I don't check that lib, however, I can image why?
> 
> I'm facing same problem now, duktape.c which is more than 3.5MB (about 100,000 lines).
> This netsurf project aims to cover as many OSs and CPUs as possible, which leads
> to many many #define lines, and #if define() lines...
> 
> On the other hand, Plan9 doesn't consider so, only support itself.
> Then, mkfile or compilers are very simple and quick.
> However, if we take this approarch, we must write our applications by ourselves.
> The 2nd edition of Plan9 got this approach, and had many simple applications,
> which was more than 20 years ago...
> 
> We can have two lines of way now...
> I think porting applications are neccessary now, because it's only application and
> it's ok if it works.   However, for libraries, we should kepp the concept of Plan9.
> So, we should keep the difference between ports and contrib?
> 
> How do you think?
> 
> Kenji