What's a developer to do?

[Bruce Dawson]

Bill Sconce wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:17:07 -0400
> Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
>>There is a real, but subtle, problem here, and I thank maddog for
>>seeing it and looking into it more.
> 
> Back to serious.  Yes, there is a problem, and I second the vote for
> maddog's sentient take on it.  I.e., we might read Jean-Claude Wippler's
> concerns as an affirmation of the need to make LSB real.  (It's hard
> to tell through the whining -- is there a subtext of "I want starpacks
> INSTEAD of LSB"?  That would be very Unix-wars like itself, in a
> self-referential way.)

Well, LSB is Linux-only. Starpacks will run on Linux, OS-X, Windows, ...
- and *with the same binary*!

My DOJ contract is starpack based, so it would be nice if I don't have
to dictate to the client "thou shalt run on Linux", or "thou shalt run
on Windows", or ... - you get the picture.

>>I shall stick to technical details on future postings to this thread.
> 
> No, no...   this is gnhlug...       :)

Oh yeah. Right. :-)

--Bruce