On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 08:56 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
I found this
"Compile on all operating systems and compilers that the platform targets."
to be a little confusing. HP 2009.2.0.2 for Windows does include Win32 (providing System.Win32). Of course there's not much point in including Win32 in HP for a Unix platform. I assume the same is true for unix (providing System.Posix), but in the opposite direction, so to speak. It would be a shame to not include these two _platform-specific_ packages in HP.
You're right that we somehow need to allow these exceptions but without encouraging non-portable packages in general.
OTOH, maybe I'm not using the word "compile" in the correct sense... Would a platform-specific package qualify if building it on _other_ platforms resulted in a successful build, but with empty output?
I think "build and work" would be a better expression of the intention. Duncan