Re: os.setenv()???

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

D Burgess wrote:
> Amongst those of us who think this is worthwhile doing, there
> appears to be some consensus. Certainly we have common aims.
>
> May I suggest an incremental approach:
>
> 1) Lets decide on a library name e.g. osext or osex  are my
> suggestions.
>
> 2) Implement a handful of functions that are currently in use by
> one or more of us. putenv/setenv/stat would be a fair start.
> I personally like Luiz's get/set/put env that is in the posix library.
>
> 3) Find someone to own (moderate) the library growth. If Luiz
> and/or Diego would like to take on the role? this would be a
> good thing.
>
> Initial aims:
>
> a) not fat
> b) cross platform (e.g. mac/unix/win)
> c) "carefully specifying and documenting a set of useful
> interfaces which are commonly available on most platforms, as well as a
> simple means of discovering whether the given interface exists" - thanks
> Rici

Seems like Luiz's posix library would satisfy all my needs, at least for 
file related and putenv functions. This is a pretty tiny library, so I 
don't think subsetting is needed. And it appears to be able to run on 
Win32, Mac OS X and Linux, although I haven't tested it. It needs some 
docs, unless there are some hiding somewhere I haven't found.

It also only compiles with mingw on Win32, so it needs to be fixed to 
work with MSDev. I can provide the MSDev 7.1 mods and vcproj files for.

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