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Hi Luiz,

So, my suggestion, which has already been made recently, is that we join
efforts and write an extended OS library that works on POSIX and Windows,
and that can be easily ported to other OS. That requires that we reach
an agreement about what to include in it and most important what *not* to
include.

Promising plan. I'd like to help out on the Windows and OS X part where possible. I (like David I suspect) have made several attempts at such a unified library (on Linux and Win32) several times. It is not simple, alas. Some fairly straight forward concepts are annoyingly different in POSIX vs. Windows and not all differences are easy to overcome.

Such a library would require a very well-thought-out basis and a main owner/moderator.

If everyone just starts contributing small snippets here and there then I'm quite convinced that it will not work, at all.

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Wim