Comments on: Write to Posix, damn it! http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/ Warning: Do not look into phasor with remaining eye. Mon, 21 May 2012 22:56:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: poly http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-523 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:12:40 +0000 http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-523 What you describe was what made me convert to FreeBSD. It seemed more pure in this manner. Seems like a lot of linux developers do not respect all the work put into -- and even more -- the _importance_ of having and permanently accepting something stable like POSIX. We are already working in sometimes complex surroundings right? So whe are normally working against chaos -- eeh -- at least if something is supposed to be an open software thing positive for the evolution of things -- alright I made my point, or rather -- repeated our point: .. Now I have made a blog too, its title is C/POSIX and its on the blog-site og google, blogger.com. What you describe was what made me convert to FreeBSD. It seemed more pure in this manner. Seems like a lot of linux developers do not respect all the work put into — and even more — the _importance_ of having and permanently accepting something stable like POSIX. We are already working in sometimes complex surroundings right? So whe are normally working against chaos — eeh — at least if something is supposed to be an open software thing positive for the evolution of things — alright I made my point, or rather — repeated our point: .. Now I have made a blog too, its title is C/POSIX and its on the blog-site og google, blogger.com.

]]> by: trever http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-484 Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:47:56 +0000 http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-484 As it turns out, I solved my current portability issue by downgrading the version of mysql that the intermediate library was linking against. Lo and behold, clean compiles on that lib. I'm moving forward with testing the app that uses the lib that uses the mysql lib now. I've also dropped a note to the perpetrators of the cranky lib suggesting that they might want to put in their docs and code comments as to what version of mysql they support.. and possibly programmatic checks for said versions during the build process. Twits. Wasted a few hours of my time, and a not unnoticed amount of hair pulling over this. Gnash, wail. Bleep. As it turns out, I solved my current portability issue by downgrading the version of mysql that the intermediate library was linking against. Lo and behold, clean compiles on that lib. I’m moving forward with testing the app that uses the lib that uses the mysql lib now.

I’ve also dropped a note to the perpetrators of the cranky lib suggesting that they might want to put in their docs and code comments as to what version of mysql they support.. and possibly programmatic checks for said versions during the build process.

Twits. Wasted a few hours of my time, and a not unnoticed amount of hair pulling over this. Gnash, wail. Bleep.

]]> by: camz http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-483 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:50:47 +0000 http://phasorburn.com/index.php/archive/write-to-posix-damn-it/#comment-483 Amen to that. There are far too many developers out there that don't understand that Linux != Unix. Hell, there are no two Unix's that are alike, they all have their own quirks, but Linux more than any other suffers from a dependency hell for just about every app that has been built for it. It's insane, and as you suggest, completely unneccesary. Amen to that. There are far too many developers out there that don’t understand that Linux != Unix. Hell, there are no two Unix’s that are alike, they all have their own quirks, but Linux more than any other suffers from a dependency hell for just about every app that has been built for it. It’s insane, and as you suggest, completely unneccesary.

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