Re: BSD::Resource

[email protected] ("M.J.T. Guy") Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:50:42 +0100
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
William R Ward <[email protected]> wrote
> I don't think any platform-dependent modules should be in the SDK.  I
> would advocate one of the following:
> 
> 1) A platform-independent interface be developed for this
> functionality, that just happens not to work on many platforms, or

Reading the README, it seems that description applies to BSD::Resource.
It certainly runs on some non-BSD platforms, and there's nothing
platform dependent in the interface.

We're in danger of hair splitting about terminology.
I find it difficult to distinguish between the concepts
"platform-dependent modules" and "a platform-independent interface
that just happens not to work on many platforms".

As already noted, it's no more platform dependent than many things in the
core.

So I'm in favour of inclusion.


Mike Guy