John Weiss wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:57:48PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: >> Cygwin's POSIX emulation layer avoids >> the need for the various workarounds required when using other >> compilers under MS-Windows. > > See! See! I *am* speaking from real experience! I'm not just some > idiot talking out his ass like Asger says I am!
John, with all due respect, you're starting to rant. If you bothered to back up your interjections with examples from the code base, that might strengthen your argument. Even were you to point to specific examples of OS-dependent code, I suspect that we'd be able to point you towards equivalent OS-independent functionality in Boost. Interactions with files and directories for exampe? Boost.Filesystem. All that's really left is: * the Child Process code for which nothing currently exists in Boost. * Sockets and named pipes for which I'd propose we look to giallo.sf.net. Deal with it: the necessary wrappers already exist and we leverage them. -- Angus
