RE: To Euphoria Porters!
- Posted by sephiroth _ <euman2376 at yahoo.com> Sep 30, 2002
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the BSD port uses LINUX. personally, i'd suggest something along the lines of -1 for TAKE_A_WILD_GUESS :) Travis Beaty wrote: > 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." > >