AIX status
David Edelsohn
dje@watson.ibm.com
Sun Oct 15 16:25:00 GMT 2000
Let's also be clear that any system is a series of design choices
and tradeoffs. All systems have their own peculiarities, benefits, and
drawbacks. If someone is accustomed to and prefers one system, fine;
however, that does not make the other systems bad. There is a large
design space to comprehend before making such claims.
If the developers do not want to create a portable C++ library --
requiring the necessary extra infrastructure and effort, but ultimately
creating a better result for everyone -- fine. Just say so and we can
stop all of this effort and find a different way to provide a portable C++
library for GCC. If we are providing a portable C++ library for GCC, then
complaining about the effort to be portable on Unix-like systems across a
wide variety of markets is a waste of everyone's time and scape-goating.
Choosing narrow, arbitrary, system-dependent cutoffs for
first-tier support is a slippery slope which likely will bite the very
people proposing it on the next round. I find this system xenophobia very
discouraging.
David
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