From: Benoit SIGOURE Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:02:54 GMT Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> No, you need to think in abstractions rather than POSIX-isms, and >> then >> let each platform implement those abstractions as appropriate. > > Last time I checked, POSIX was already an abstraction, > thankyouverymuch. But as Eli pointed out, it's not universal, so you need higher abstractions on top of them. > Anyway, this discussion gets out of hand. Not at all, actually I think some interesting points were made, including on the technical side of the thing. -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory