OpenEuphoria

To Euphoria Porters!

• Posted by Travis Beaty <tbeaty at mach3ww.com> Sep 30, 2002
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Hello!

I'm working on a project which needs to be designed so that it will run 
on all platforms to which Euphoria is ported.  This will of course mean 
that the library will need to be aware of what system it is being run 
on.  The logical way to do this is to use the platform() routine.

Here is where the question and suggestion comes in.  RDS has already 
created three constants for platform, possibly four for BSD (Rob?): 
 DOS32, WIN32, and LINUX.  I am hoping that any people out there 
creating ports will agree upon other values; ie, MAC_OS = 5, BEOS = 6, 
TAKE_A_WILD_GUESS = 7.  If two people make their own ports for two 
different operating systems, and each port returns the value 5 for 
platform(), this will cause a great deal of angst and gnashing of teeth.

If  ye-who-port can't come to a gentleman's agreement on this, I foresee 
all heck breaking loose about five years from now.  :(

Travis Beaty,
Mason City, Iowa.

"Always remember that you are unique; just like everyone else."