From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 14 07:49:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11174 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 07:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11165 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 07:49:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA19166; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:49:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199805141449.IAA19166@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows? In-Reply-To: <19980514132238.A320@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 14, 98 01:22:38 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:49:07 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 2. After reading the articles, I'm not sure that their people are > very experienced. It's quite conceivable that, faced with the > undoubted obscenities in the Exploder code, they might have made > suboptimal porting decisions. I've found it much easier to build in portability from the beginning. If you want a program to run on several variants of UNIX, build in the portability from the start by giving each of the development team a different workstation. This way, they have a vested interest in keeping it running on each of the different platforms, all the time. Microsoft's team did not do this, and it is probably to their detriment. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message