"Portability"

[Olivier Dagenais]

I *really* like the wxWindows approach:  "Not every platform supports
feature X?  Well, platforms that support feature X will do so natively, and
all others will benefit from an almost-as-good implementation that we
provide."  I think this is how they support MDI on non-Win32 platforms,
although I think MDI is "faked" in GTK+..

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"Andrew Kuchling" <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote in message
news:3dog0g6hdr.fsf at kronos.cnri.reston.va.us...
> claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
> > My personal emotional reaction is that Python
> > shouldn't be like Perl, and shouldn't just expose
> > the OS run-time; it should build in a portability
> > layer for strftime(), socket(), and other notor-
> > ious black sheep.  I suppose I'll just leave it
>
> One risk of this approach is that you wind up following Java's
> least-common-denominator approach.  Not every platform supports
> select()?  Then you can't use select() on any platform at all...
>
> --amk
>
>