Re: BSD::Resource

Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> writes:
> 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?  
> 
> That's from where the interface originates.

A poor reason for a name.  For the naive user, it will seem that it
only works under BSD (if they even know what BSD is), and thus not
something they will even think to use on a non-BSD platform where it
may work.

To repeat what I said earlier:

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

--Bill.

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