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Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Gr oup Proposal)

From:
Michael Stevens
Date:
July 24, 2000 08:39
Subject:
Re: Threads, reentrancy, and suchlike things (was: Re: Working Gr oup Proposal)
Message ID:
20000724163912.A18990@athenaeum.globnix.org
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:31:55PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> One of Glib's aims is portability. They're trying to extend to as many
> platforms as possible because they want GNOME to extend to as many
> platforms as possible. Our support helps them in other ways as well.
> Portability goals are pretty common.
> 
> Remember all that I8/U8/I16/U16/I32/U32 stuff? They've already done
> that. Maybe we've got more platforms covered than they have, but then
> we can help them.
> 
> Of course, this would mean that Perl would have a GNU-style 
> ./configure && make build cycle. I only throw that in to make some more
> people go "Ooooh!"

My thought - we should have a glib independant layer, so we can
use glib/nspr/whatever whizz-bang library is available.

But I fear this may be virtualising things too far. I dunno, it's
an idea.



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