On 01.05.2015 16:46, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > i've been findign allot of microsoft hacks in Unix code
I had to re-read your message a few times to make any sense of it. I'll try to sum it up as best as i can, please verify that no meaning was lost in the process. Your issue is with portable projects (that can be compiled for W32; you seem to focus on Cygwin specifically, but i presume you mean any W32, not just Cygwin - i.e MinGW too). They are: 1) Getting ifdefs for W32/Cygwin-specific code. You dislike that this damages readability, but since no W32/Cygwin-specific code gets compiled for non-W32/Cygwin platforms, you're kind of "ok" with this. 2) Getting redesigned to fit W32/Cygwin better (you gave no specific examples, but i presume that you've meant this too; if you didn't, please say so) - like getting functions that are no-ops everywhere except on W32/Cygwin, getting abstractions that are only meaningful on W32/Cygwin. 3) Getting features that only have meaning on W32/Cygwin (or have meaning on other platforms as well, but you dislike these features), but which introduce dependencies that otherwise would not be there. Does that cover it? -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org
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