Re: BSD::Resource

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Fri, 29 Oct 1999 23:23:58 +0300 (EET DST)
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Organization IKI ry, Finland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
William R Ward writes:
 > "M.J.T. Guy" <[email protected]> writes:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Then why is it under the BSD hierarchy?  If the top level part of a

That's from where the interface originates.

 > module name is the name of a platform then I think it's safe to assume
 > it won't work anywhere but that platform.

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