Re: about lposix

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:45 +1000, David Burgess wrote:
> Wim Couwenberg wrote:
> >
> > Promising plan.  I'd like to help out on the Windows and OS X part where
> > possible.  I (like David I suspect) have made several attempts at such a
> > unified library (on Linux and Win32) several times.  It is not simple,
> > alas.  Some fairly straight forward concepts are annoyingly different in
> > POSIX vs. Windows and not all differences are easy to overcome.
> >
> 
> I share this experience. However, I think it is implementable. It requires
> (as noted above) a good abstraction layer.

How have they solved it in other languages like php and ruby? What can
we learn from them?

> > Such a library would require a very well-thought-out basis and a main
> > owner/moderator.
> 
> I was sort of hoping Luiz would take on this role. IMHO, OS zealots
> need not apply.

He sort of offered to do it.

Luiz, how can we help you? I started to make a list of suggestions of
functions togehter what we currently have (lposix, ex, and
luafilesystem) 

Natanael Copa