[clean-list] Re: Clean and the Open-Source community

[Geoffrey Plitt]

Can you please explain "lack of dynamic I/O and linking"? What can the
windows OS do that linux cannot?

Also, I don't understand how Famke "runs" on windows. Is it a full OS,
or just an applications layer?

Geoff


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:37:11 +0100, Arjen van Weelden
<A.vanWeelden at cs.ru.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> Geoffrey Plitt wrote:
> > I'm also a Clean enthusiast. I'd love to contribute to this project if
> > it became more active in the open source communities, and get more
> > ports in working order. Keep those releases coming! Any schedule
> > estimates?
> >
> > Question: When you say "Hilde" is only compatible with certain OSes, I
> > am confused. Do you mean it only _builds_ on certain OSes?
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> [snip]
> 
> (Arnout did not say that, I did.)
> 
> Hilde only links on Windows because her code refers to symbols in the
> Windows system libraries. Since it also uses those functions/symbols, it
> will only run on Windows. Replacing the Windows system calls with, for
> example, Linux system calls should be easy.
> 
> The main problem is this:
> Due to lack of dynamic I/O and linking, the Esther shell cannot read or
> write dynamic files and the Famke kernel cannot start, or communicate
> with, other processes because it cannot transfer code to other
> processes. This makes Hilde severely crippled and unworkable because she
> cannot perform her main tasks.
> 
> regards,
>         Arjen
>