15 Sep
2007
15 Sep
'07
8:42 a.m.
On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote:
The RIGHT way to do this is rather messy .. but there is only one right way to do it. [...]
IMHO things are not that black or white: I think we have a tradeoff between
almost 100% fool-proofness (which is basically the approach you describe) and
the ability to do cross-compilation (use available headers and perhaps
fail/guess if nothings sensible could be found). What is "right" has to be
decided on a case-by-case basis.
But of course you are totally right in one respect: OS-based tests when used
in a context like our example are silly and should be replaced by
feature-based tests (be it "Do we have