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- Subject: Re: about lposix
- From: "Jason Zhang" <jzhang@...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:43:57 -0400
How about using the OS library of ACE.
ACE works well on a lot of OS with it's OS wrapper layer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Couwenberg" <w.couwenberg@chello.nl>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: about lposix
> 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.
>
> --
> Wim
>