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- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 12:41:05 +0100
- From: Christian Lynbech <lynbech@daimi.aau.dk>
- Message-Id: <199401101141.AA03844@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>
- To: clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com
- In-Reply-To: <9401100952.AA01579@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com> (message from Claus Brod on Mon, 10 Jan 94 10:52:55 MEZ)
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list
-
- If there is goeing to be a separate list, I really would like to be on
- it too.
-
- I have also wondered about such a project and was slowly trying to
- pull myself together to do something similar on my own setup.
-
- Of things I have considered myself:
-
- - We need (as Claus Brod already mentioned) a standard directory
- structure (sh in /bin, c libraries in /usr/lib etc.) and even better
- a standard distribution (could be anything from just a list of
- packages to a real distribution kit).
-
- - We need to get of the tos filesystem stuff, and I personally think
- we should nuke whereever we can find it. I would like unix style
- path settings (/bin:/usr/bin...) and no mentioning of backslashes at
- all (for instance it seems that minixfs will contain some support
- for mounting)
-
- - Perhaps some standards for how to port software, such that rather
- than just using `#ifdef atari' when making some (unix incompatible)
- changes, one should use something like:
-
- `#if defined(atari) && !defined(MINTOS)'
-
- so that we unix freaks will not loose the unix way of doeing things,
- unless we insist.
-
-
- A good starting point would be to start making some standards
- documents (much in the manner of the ARGV standard). We may also want,
- at some point, to start making changes in the kernel itself, to make
- it more unix'sh and posix'sh.
-
- A main point of our efforts will be that we do not need to care for
- tos compability (a worthy goal, but not important to me).
-
-
- Just my penny,
-
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- Christian Lynbech | Hit the philistines three times over the
- | head with the Elisp reference manual.
- email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk | - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
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