Re: RC => POSIX

[Bengt.Kleberg@uab.ericsson.se (Bengt Kleberg)]

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> It would be far more productive and result in a far more portable
> product to integrate GNU Autoconf et al and didn't I just see a note
> about es being autoconf'ed pass by here earlier?  Taking the autoconf
> support from es should be trivial, esp. to any rc-internals programmer
> with any experience using autoconf.
> 

Byron has written that it is better to be portable than POSIX. He even
mentioned ANSI C as a stumbeling block for portablility. To be
consequent I therefore suggest that ANSI C is dropped (or POSIX adopted :-)

> The GNU Autoconf philosophy is similar in some ways to what you suggest,
> esp. in that autoconf'ed packages usually provide a compatability
> library for those system functions the software uses but which are not
> always available on all systems.  However the autoconf style isn't
> anywhere nearly so restrictive as porting directly to plain POSIX would
> be.

This is what I don't like. When it comes to programming I prefer restrictions.

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Best Wishes, Bengt
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