Russ Allbery writes:
> I can readily believe that Dan's build construction tools are quite
> sophisticated for the problems that he's trying to solve. I'm a little
> more skeptical that they're going to make software packages that are
> essentially the distilled portability hacks of *hundreds* of programmers
> look like the "babbling of a child."
The problem is that the portability hacks have the wrong attitude.
They say "how do we get program foo to work with os bar's c library"?
Dan says "os bar's c library is a piece of shit anyway. Why bother
figuring out all the many and myriad ways it's been munged? Here's a
decent library, and we'll figure how what's different about the
syscalls."
Basically, if you program to Dan's C library, you don't *have* any
portability problems. Well, actually, once you get out of the problem
domain that Dan's already solved, you might need to solve a few more
problems.
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