[M3devel] INSTALL_ROOT and PKG_USE in cm3.cfg

[Jay]

truncated again! 

> From: jayk123 at hotmail.com> To: wagner at elegosoft.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:07:20 +0000> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com> Subject: Re: [M3devel] INSTALL_ROOT and PKG_USE in cm3.cfg> > > I'm with you that they are neither systematic nor intuitive.> I think I could even be persuaded to support a general renaming,> if the scheme and concepts are well considered before.> Uh oh...> [big ramble...]> > Darwin: I was surprised, but I understood.> > I know a lot of the history and I get it.> I used the LINUXELF port briefly, or maybe the LINUX (a.out) one.> I guess hypothetically you can still boot LINUX 1.2 on either modern hardware or VMs??????> Anyone reporting 10 year uptimes??> > Unix ABI: I'm surprised the compat is so bad. Microsoft does an excellent job of ABI compat, but behavioral compat is another matter.> > > Yes. Actually the X in X Windows and MacOS X refer to completely different> things. MacOS X does not support X Windows out of the box, it uses> Aqua as GUI.> I understand. I believe Aqua is mostly just a marketing term even.> Apple's got a bazillion different libraries to do the same thing.> Want to draw on the screen -- QuickDraw (deprecated) or CoreGraphics, OpenGL..> Want to have a text editor -- TextEdit, MSLTE, and something else, and third party like "WASTE".> Want to get a mouse click -- there's two event managers.> Want to open a file -- there's like four or more sets of APIs -- FSSpec, FSRef, stdio, unixio, maybe something in Cocoa.> Even in the kernel they have multiple frameworks I believe.> It appears to be a big random mishmash.> They had two APIs for LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress, and then later add dlopen
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