Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!db.toronto.edu!jonah
From: jonah@db.toronto.edu (Jeffrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Progress report on MINIX 1.5.0 (was 1.4b)
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.133845.2809@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 18:38:45 GMT
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bediako@marvin.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Bernard Bediako) writes:
>Is the 1.5.0 version going to contain #ifdef 's for all the different 
>architectures (IBM,ST, MAC, etc) or is it only going to be for the PC?

Past experience with "portable" editors suggests that it is much better
to isolate system dependencies in separate files rather than use ifdefs
if at all possible.  This requires a considerable amount of foresight
and well defined module interfaces with information hiding.  I don't
know how easily this practice could be applied to the existing versions
of Minix.

j.